No person and no family should feel unprotected. All of us have the right to live with a sense of peace and security in our own homes and neighborhoods. We should make any changes necessary in the judicial and penal systems to ensure this, short of taking the life of another person, even a guilty person. There are many supporting arguments that can be advanced in opposing capital punishment. We have limited ourselves to the innate dignity of every human life, and the negative effects of state sponsored killing on our culture.
Violence begets violence.
Our hope is for a civilization of love, a culture of life.