I asked my mother why she supported the death penalty, and she said, "Because some people deserve to die." Undeterred, I asked her if she would personally oversee an execution, and after a moment she said "No.", but after a pause, she said, "Howver, I would pay taxes to the government to have them do it for me."
This is from a person with a medical degree, charged with saving human lives. I asked her if it bothered her in the least that she lived in a progressive modern democracy that authorized the mandated execution of its own citizens, and she said, "Nope. Thank god that they do."
I wish I was adopted.