Last year I was interviewed by Kevin Davis from the ABA Journal, and this month it was published. Davis wrote,
Conservatives coming out against capital punishment are part of a broader movement among conservatives who are supporting criminal justice reform policies once largely the domain of liberal-minded politicians.
Davis also said,
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is led by Marc Hyden, a conservative Christian who used to work for the National Rifle Association. Hyden’s position has shifted radically from his younger days. “For a long time I supported the death penalty. I thought some people deserved to receive death for some of their crimes and I thought it deterred crime,” he says. “And I’m kind of ashamed to say that I accepted sometimes innocent people likely would be killed by the state.”
The McCollum case in North Carolina underscores that killing innocent people is a real possibility. “Stories like these—they bother you. You see how easily an innocent person can be executed by the state,” Hyden says. “It’s very hard to support the death penalty and accept the risk and be pro-life.”