Why I Have Trouble Voting a "Sanctity of Life" Line

One party supports abortion, the other supports capital punishment. The Dems also are more likely to approve of assisted suicide, whereas the current crop of Reps have quite a few warhawks in their midst who are causing innumerable deaths and destruction abroad. How can one put such a weight on these issues when the evils are shared across party lines?

Here's some details from the annual report on capital punishment from the Justice Department.

From Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy:

Key Findings:
* In 2003, 65 inmates were executed, 6 fewer than in 2002.
* 11 states had executions in 2003. 24 inmates were executed in Texas; 14 in Oklahoma, 7 in North Carolina; 3 each in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio; 2 each in Indiana, Missouri, and Virginia; and 1 in Arkansas. One inmate was executed in the Federal system.
* Of persons executed in 2003:
  -- 41 were white
  -- 20 were black
  -- 3 were Hispanic (all white)
  -- 1 American Indian
* Of those executed in 2003, all 65 were men
* Lethal injection accounted for 64 of the executions; 1 was carried out by electrocution."

Definitely disproportional for blacks, hispanics not as much.

Get the whole report here (pdf).