"I don't understand anyone who thinks all murderers should live."

I do.

They live by this emotional statement that is spoken daily, axiomatically accepted as one of their higher truths: "A human life is so precious..."

Only a really GOOD person would say such a thing. Only a really evil person would say that that wasn't always true. Only a really evil person would advocate that a human life could legitimately be taken away from the human without his permission.

See, first they say that human life is infinitely precious. But just scratch beneath the surface and you'll learn that humans who are inside another human aren't precious, aren't even meaningful, at all. And then there are the humans whose doctors have made a supernatural judgement on what will happen six months out into the future; their lives aren't precious at all. And let's not forget the target(s) of torture-murderers and axe murderers. They weren't precious enough to arouse any moral outrage on the part of the anti-death penalty people.

There are a lot of things going on there. Many, many unstated presuppositions.

Good people love people, and it takes an even better person to love bad people. The anti-death-penalty person (ADPP) is a better person.

Bad people hate people. Anyone who wants to put murderers to death is morally lazy, doesn't have the energy nor the goodness to force himself to forgive the heinous murderer the way the ADPP has. You and I are thus slavering to see someone get executed. The people who don't want to see that are so much gooder than we are. We are very bad, the ADPP is very good.

You're out for revenge. The ADPP isn't. He's good, you're bad.

You can't forgive. The ADPP has already forgiven all murderers. He's good, you're bad.

As with all liberal beliefs, Prager, believing the good beliefs they believe makes them good, while believing the bad beliefs you believe makes you bad.

They will cherish these beliefs forever, unless you can make a crack in them. How to do that, though is very very difficult.

For further information, see "glazed eyes" or "intentional deafness" or "Jehovah's Witness".