I’m not a fan of the death penalty but its not a do or die issue for me in the voting booth. I’m sure as hell not going to protest it if it were an option in my own state, let alone other states.
Guess I’m more of a (((Shrug))) on the whole issue.
I agree with you. I am really ambivalent about the issue because of two conflicting principles that make it a non-issue in my mind. These are: (1) that our radically secular State does not have the legal credibility or moral authority to put people in jail, let alone execute them; and (2) that the emotional/political “energy” spent these days on a very small number of high-profile cases is dwarfed by the millions of unborn children we have slaughtered in recent decades in the name of “choice” or “convenience.”