Capital punishment is a form of punishment that risks the worst of injustices. It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Capital punishment is only a preventive measure if it is administered prior to the crime.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Capital punishment is often rationalized by pointing to the bible. But if the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Capital punishment is a punishment that would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.