“(b) In addition to pursuing the death penalty where possible, the Attorney General shall, where consistent with applicable law, pursue Federal jurisdiction and seek the death penalty regardless of other factors for every federal capital crime involving:
(i) The murder of a law-enforcement officer; or
(ii) A capital crime committed by an alien illegally present in this country.”
Interesting.
I remember the day I had my mind changed about the death penalty by a school peer who was also taking Dr. Diane Harvey's Ethics course at Menlo College. It was a big deal to change my mind about such a firmly held belief. He was not a libertarian but he appealed to my views about The State. When I tried to slide in "yeah, but they aren't innocent", he got me with, "You believe only Jesus was innocent.". He won me over by appealing to First Cause Principles as I applied them to my own life. Pretty powerful.
