I'm sure that the death penalty is much more widely supported in the US than in Europe among the population as a whole, and I *think* that this is as true among US Catholics as it is among other groups.

Hey, thanks to the guns-and-ammo manufacturers' lobby, we have much more murder here than in any other country on earth, and far too many simple folk (of all religions, including no religion) believe that the only solution is to maintain the threat of execution.