The death penalty will be abolished. Perhaps it won't be in time to save Clarence Hill, the condemned Florida man whose challenge to the constitutionality of existing lethal injection procedures was heard by the Supreme Court last week, but the death penalty is going to be abolished. The United States is the last Western country to permit it. Many religious leaders, including the pope, have condemned it. The courts have been chipping away at it. And the public is increasingly against it. It will be abolished, and when that happens, we will, no doubt, end up feeling rather civilized and...