[IMRight]

Good Christians may disagree on the "justness" of a particular war, and may even express concern about the way a particular death penalty statute is administered...

But there is no inconsistency between the Pro-life & pro-death-penalty positions.

The death penalty is a punishment for personal crimes. Babies have committed no crimes. The opposing position ("death to the innocent but mercy for the guilty") is the one that is inconsistent.

[Sass]

How do we simultaneously both do justice and love mercy with respect to the death penalty? Pro-Death Penalty people have no problem with doing justice. How can they love mercy? It is a strange tension in Scripture that I haven't resolved. I'm sure, though, that one of you two amazingly brilliant men will take this mystery and expound on it so that no mystery remains. I'm sure you can easily explain all of God's mystery to me in one a few lines of your next post. So amaze me!