I'm against capitol punishment for all but a few offenses (Genocide, Mass Murder, High Treason). I would pass the Witherspoon Test and still not vote for capitol punishment, even if the facts of this case are exactly as presented.
Reasoning:
1) According to Black's Death Penalty Case Law, Vol 3, over 90% of Americans have no idea what the Witherspoon Test is whereas almost everyone has a strong opinion on capitol punishment.
2) My personal impulses want a lot of people dead - from these schmucks to rapists, rascists, the drug dealers down the street, every moron that thought invading Iraq was a great idea, and definitely to Westboro Baptists. But if my impulses directed my actions, I would be a monster and so would almost everyone I've ever met.
3) Taking 2) a little higher up, this is a calculated, time consuming, considered effort to kill other people and deem it Justice whereas it is really a poor excuse to take the opportunity to sink to the moral level of the perpetrators. An execution is not the same as thinking someone should be dead for a lot of reasons: this is one of them.
4) It doesn't bring the victim back or offer any protection or immunity to potential future victims.
5) The fact that reason does not change anyone's mind when it comes to this issue is precisely why it should be abolished.
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