[Notwithstanding]

In any event, abortion and captial punishment are not of equal import as societal problems. Abortions happen at a rate that makes one sick when one dwells on it. Capital Punishment almost NEVER occurs, involves a guilty murderer, and can be moral. Whereas abortion occurs every day by the thousands, involves an innocent babe, and is NEVER moral.

[dighton]

Thus my objection to Fr. Ortman lumping them together, as if they were the same thing: I am against the sin of taking life by acts of abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment.

Otherwise it follows -- does it not? -- that anyone participating in any lawful execution, does so at the risk of damnation.