I personally have little interest in the debate on capital punishment, but I am interested in people being accountable for their actions. We don’t seem to teach or even believe this to be true anymore. The right to life is inarguably an ‘absolute’, but unfortunately so is the concept of ‘death’, and no one seems to be representing the victim who was, I again assume, completely innocent of any wrongdoing or the precipitation of the act of the murder.

The discussion of legitimate concepts, taken out of context, tends to only confuse and obfuscate the debate, and invariably an incapability of coming to valuable insights and conclusions. I think we should continue to think deeply about the issues involved and attempt to achieve some semblance of fairness and justice in our determinations.