Paulie would die in here because he killed the man beating Alice to death. Yes, it had been Paul who set up the drug deal, and Paul who didn’t do the due diligence required, but that didn’t mean he deserved to die. No modern, healthy, civilization should use an-eye-for-an-eye to justify murdering its own citizens. Committing the same acts as the criminal dragged you down to their level and made a mockery of any moral stance. She knew the arguments: the difference between murder and execution being the intervention of an impartial law, the cold application of rules and regulations. That was horseshit. The law was never impartial; she’d seen it meted out day after day, always open to interpretation. The public’s horror and outrage at the Six-Thirty bombing had driven the decision to reintroduce federal executions; what was impartial about that?