We are prepared to let young children watch films & TV programmes featuring the most appalling scenes of violence ,carnage ,mutilation & mass murder, yet teach them that capital punishment is "wrong" & "uncivilised " !! How hypocritical is that ??

That's a stick that points both ways. Stopping exposing our kids to that kind of crap on TV might be a more straightforward way of avoiding laying ourselves open to the charge of hypocrisy.