Death penalty
Today’s Booknotes is all about the death penalty. Read it!
Just like Craig, I see no consistent way to defend the death penalty on moral grounds. Deliberately killing another human being is wrong - and when a State kills it’s own citizens there are no possible excuses.
Some people think there is a moral way of having others killed for them. In that case, other arguments may be necessary: innocent people can’t be un-killed, poor black people are killed more often than they should - and it doesn’t even seem to prevent crime or save any money.