<<Just the same as those who execute prisoners on death row are assassins of the state that issued the penalty. And you are a proponent of the death penalty, aren't you? >>
The difference, a small matter that you overlooked, undoubtedly by accident, is that the victims of the death penalty were duly convicted and sentenced after a fair trial in accordance with the law, and were paying for crimes which twelve impartial jurors had unanimously decided, in the face of all evidence to the contrary freely presented to them, had beyond any reasonable doubt been committed without lawful excuse by the accused.