As a botched Tennessee execution renews death penalty scrutiny, this is what polls show about opinion on capital punishment.

The death penalty does not serve life, but, when affirmed as a good, makes people think killing itself can be a good.

Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who have repeatedly failed to kill Christa Pike for a murder she committed 30 years ago,

This is in reference to the news report on the botched execution in Tennessee. I fervently hope that anyone who is on the fence about whether to oppose or support this evil, unnecessary practice of the death penalty will now see it for what it is and oppose it.