[BrotherMan]

It was many years ago now when me, my mom and dad talked briefly about the death penalty. There must have been some case that was in the news but I don't remember what it was. Mom asked both of us if we believed in capital punishment. Without hesitation my dad and I confirmed that we did. Mom, being the good Catholic, wasn't in favor of a death penalty at all. I don't know what the official reasons the Church list as reasons, but Mom reasoned that we are human, infallible, and can't know with absolute certainty that the guilty is absolutely guilty. Oh, and also, there's some moral squickiness with killing people. This was all long after I was even conservabort. I think. But I'm glad I had that conversation. It got me to actually, for reals, thinking about it - instead of "trusting" the Man (not our The Man).