The usual arguments for and against capital punishment will be trotted out this month as mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, filled with hatred for Americans fueled by radical Islamism, faces sentencing for the 30 crimes for which he has been judged guilty. On the one side are those who believe that just because someone brutally rapes and murders an innocent woman or murders and maims more than 260 people does not mean we in turn should respond as if we are ourselves equally uncivilized.  It is up to us to exhibit a higher level of humanity and ensure that we set an example of respecting human lives, even though these perpetrators did not.  In this way we separate ourselves from them and their depraved acts rather than lowering ourselves to their level of cruelty.  Indeed, for those who make this argument, no act of murder, genocide or vicious cruelty is so evil as to warrant our decision to take another human being’s life, or even to see those perpetrators of...(Read Full Article)