Death Penalty Question

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I oppose the death penalty, unconditionally. Don't really agree with conceding the power of life & death to the state, personally.

[Associate Justice PiT]

The point of being against the death penalty is to accept that we aren't going to use it on people who have committed the very worst crimes imaginable. It doesn't make sense to say we need to ban capital punishment and then renege once someone does something we find really horrible.

So yes.

Even the horrific gang-rape-turned-murder in India doesn't faze you? 

There are no "even ...?" scenarios. Either it's right or it's wrong.

     That's probably the biggest thing that annoys me about the death penalty: people who react to opposition to the death penalty with "you wouldn't even want to execute ______?" It's such a blatantly invalid argument that I wonder what possesses them to even make it.