[Truth]

Congressman, I would be interested in knowing if you are just as "passionate" in your opposition to abortion. While the death penalty may result in the death of a completely (not technically) innocent person one time out of ten thousand or so, abortion destroys the innocent one hundred percent of the time.

It is consistent to oppose both abortion and the death penalty. It is consistent to support both. It is consistent to oppose abortion and support the death penalty. However, one cannot with any intellectual integrity support abortion and oppose capital punishment.


I oppose the capital punishment in its present form because, with all the appeals and related stalls, the punishment will likely never be carried out and, if it is, often twenty, twenty-five, or more years have passed since the crime was committed. Sadly, other than for family, the victim is long forgotten (there are many innocent victims, you know). That is wrong.

If we are to have capital punishment, it should be done in a relatively swift manner. Justice would actually be served (rather than the travesty we have now) and it would certainly save a goodly portion of the expense.