I think you have completely misunderstood me there. I do not have a 'passion' for killing people. Rather, I regard the death penalty as something that I feel uneasy about, but that I can see may be the least bad solution in some cases. You see, I recognise that we live in a very imperfect world, and sometimes we have to make unpleasant decisions because the consequences of those decisions are probably going to be less bad than the alternatives. And realistically there are people who seem to have devoted their lives to making other people's lives a misery: People who, once they are out of prison for their previous conviction, will routinely go on to assault/rob/rape/etc. someone else, and who will there go in and out of prison time and time again, each time leaving another innocent person's life devastated. People who, even when they are in prison, will use smuggled phones to organise further crimes or to intimidate their previous victims and so on. People who, it seems that as long as they are alive, will do all they can to destroy other people's lives. My point is that, in cases like that, by insisting that the death penalty is wrong, we may well be indirectly causing the deaths (or other crimes against) many other innocent people. So you have to decide: Which is worse? I'm guessing that none of us want anyone to die, but in some cases having noone die might simply not be an option: The choice is between sentencing a hardened criminal to death, or seeing other innocent people later get killed or have their lives otherwise ruined by that same hardened criminal. From where I'm standing, it looks like you're choosing the option that keeps your hands clean, whereas I'm open to choosing the option that causes the least overall harm.