I'm not going to put words in Jesus' mouth. He wouldn't have had to. Skeptics confront Jesus with a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. Mosaic law calls for her death. None dare condemn her.
Different people read Scripture different ways, of course.
Where the Bible was once cited for and against slavery, people still invoke it on both sides of the death penalty debate. But for Bush to evade the question as he did, after all his sanctimony, was the equivalent of sewing a scarlet letter on his own chest. The letter H. For hypocrite. St. Petersburg Times.