Respect Life Sunday
Today is "Respect Life Sunday" in the Catholic Church. I could tell when the priest starting speaking about capital punishment that people were not as comfortable with this issue as they were when he was speaking about stem cell research or abortion. It is not difficult to be against these topics because they mostly involve the unborn and helpless. Nevertheless, I find it unnerving that so many catholics are not opposed to captial punishment. In fact, American Catholics as well as the rest of the United States are equally divided on this issue. I find it appalling not because I am criminal defense attorney, or a Catholic, but because I am a human being and can not believe we think that we have the right to end someone elses life. It was Dostoyevsky that said that society is judged by how it treats its prisoners. I am going to be embarrassed to have to share with my grandchildren that I once lived in a society that executed people.