When we are violent, all we touch with it is injured. There is no healing. Nothing is restored. There is no peace, no satisfaction, no reconciliation. When we are violent, whether as individuals or as society, our very souls are assaulted, poisoned and wounded.
Capital punishment is also a lie.
No one is restored. No good is created. It creates only more victims and more lust for vengeance. Capital punishment is used in an arbitrary and discriminatory way. The poor and people of color who murder white people are the ones who end up on death row.