“It’s a hell of a thing‚ killin’ a man‚” Clint Eastwood’s character said in the 1992 Western Unforgiven. “You take away everything he’s got and everything he’s ever gonna have.” The statement‚ made with cold indifference by a hardened killer‚ underscores the stakes in putting someone to death. Those stakes are not only born by individuals who take another’s life‚ either in murder or in self-defense. We as a community face its enormity whenever our government‚ state or national‚ executes a...