Sentence:  "We believe the decision of competence should be made by a judge, not by the governor. The governor of this state is too <WSD>prodeath</WSD>... The decision should be decided by a neutral judicial process," said Dick Burr, a public defender who raised the competency question for condemned inmate Alvin Ford. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Supporting capital punishment in a particular case or in general.