[thoughtomator]

The counter to Fuhrman sounds a lot more like an anti-abortion argument than an anti-death penalty argument.

The anti-death-penalty argument is simple, to me. What government can really be trusted with the power to put its citizens to death? A government which believes it can put a citizen to death in one situation will find a way to justify doing the same in a different situation (e.g. the Waco catastrophe).

[xzins]

Abortion is an illegitimate devaluation of human life that creates apathy about the value of life.

So does refusing to uphold a standard of equal or greater compensation for the taking of a life. As life is cheapened more will apathetically take life. In the long run their taking of the life will pay off for them.