Matt Abbott from Renew America mentioned us in his column. I am quoted as saying,
“Conservatives are becoming increasingly concerned about the high costs of this government program that we rarely use, as well as the risk of executing innocent people. It’s causing many of us to question whether capital punishment is consistent with conservative values.”
He went on to quote the Catholic Catechism,
“Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm – without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself – the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity ‘are very rare, if not practically non-existent.”