CT to repeal the death penalty

[Free Palestine]

The death penalty is utterly barbaric, and it's a shame that it's taking this long to achieve abolition.

extremely natural, rational, and reasonable human desire for vengeance for evildoers

Yeah, tell that to the Norwegians, who are singing songs and such outside the courthouse where a violent Neo-Nazi mass-murderer is being tried, rather than organizing lynchmobs, like what would occur in the U.S.  Stop chalking up your cultural views to something biologically determined.