And describing everything that is based on humanitarianism and common decency as "left wing" pisses me off Al
Your arguments for the State killing of sa child, as you have here has nothing to do with politics - just on our responsibility to one another as human being
The left may have made many mistakes in it's desire for equality of opportunity for all, but it was delibrat worked out and documented right wing philosophy and deliberate intention that herded around ten million human beings into extermination chambers 70 years ago and it was the right wing business worldwho provided the finances for them to do so
That is the only political issue to consider in these arguments

You may oppose Capital Punishment in words, but you've put a lot of effort in support of putting a child to death here

There's a wonderful little book (195 pages) litle thumbnail sketch of capital punishiment by the totally unknown John Dean Potter, entitled, 'The Fatal Gallows Tree' - if it were up to me I would make it compulsory reading on every education curriculum in Britain as a reminder of Britain's recent barbaric past
It finishes with this magificent description from the New Statesman, of Britain's Great and Good's last ditch attempt to keep caplital punshment of the stature books

From the hills and forests of darkest Britain they came : the halt, the lame, the deaf, the obscure, the senile and the forgotten —the hereditary peers of England united in their determination to use their medieval powers to retain a medieval institution.
Jim