re: #265 Blind Frog Belly White

But in a more serious vein, for a while I supported capital punishment, “but only for the most heinous of crimes, and the most obviously guilty of murderers”, and that seemed like a defensible position - those people are broken, unfixable, and present an unacceptable risk to society for as long as they live.

Then I thought, “Okay, how do you write that into a law, so it’s really applied correctly?” and I realized it wasn’t possible, so I now oppose capital punishment.

I have always thought (and still think) there are crimes that deserve capital punishment.

My evolution on this issue occurred when I came to believe there was no way for the state to justly distinguish the cases where capital punishment is deserved from those it isn’t.