Catholic/Journalism /Elizabeth Bruenig Anti-Death Penalty Nonsense . . . Never Ends
Originally sent, July 21, 2025, with slight edits
To: Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer, The Atlantic
Dominick Preziocy, editor, Commonweal Magazine
Regina Much, associate editor, Commonweal Magazine
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Subject: "She's Just Wrong": The Errors of Elizabeth Bruenig
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RE: The Commonweal Podcast Ep. 153 - "It’s Just Wrong", July 8, 2025
(The Death Penalty with Elizabeth Bruenig)
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
Preface
It should be, very, difficult to comprehend the ignorance by a journalist as well educated, read and published as Elizabeth Bruenig
Bruenig appears the simple anti-death penalty, journalism norm: use anti-death penalty material, do not fact check it, vet it nor use critical thinking, or pretend, and/or avoid pro-death penalty material and experts or act as if that were the case (1). Nothing else appears a rational, informed observation of this podcast. Ask Bruenig, after her review.
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The mercies within the death penalty are, overwhelmingly obvious, if one employs knowledge and reason.
1) Since 1973, in the US, we have had about 900,000 murders and 1600 executions, or a 0.17% execution rate for murder or 1 execution per every 562 murders (2).
2) As a near unanimous rule, to receive a death sentence, the jury must vote against the defendant/convicted party 48-0, 100%, 4 votes per each of the 12 jurors. To save the murderer, only 1 vote, 1 vs 47, 2%. is required, for the murderer, giving LWOP, arguably the most anti-democratic vote in a constitutional republic (3). Florida is, barely, an improvement, allowing a 8-4 majority vote for the death penalty, meaning 5 against the death penalty still rules over the 7 for it, still anti-democratic. The verdict votes, guilty or not guilty, still, require unanimity. We execute about 15% of our death row inmates and overturn, or otherwise, take 40% off death row, by reasons other than execution. Incredible legal mercies for murderers, with more harm to the survivors of the innocents murdered, the pattern (5).
The frauds, errors and/or mis-directions of the anti-death penalty movement, what I call FEMS, are intended to harm the death penalty, but also the survivors of the innocents murdered (1), to the point the anti-death penalty mantra should be "we are so cruel to victim survivors that you must stop the death penalty" (5).
It appears that FEMS fooled Bruenig?
3) We, now, average about 20 years of appeals, prior to execution. Why? Irresponsible judges. Since 1976, Virginia has executed 113 murderers, within 7 years of full appeals, How? Responsible judges. My informed opinion is that the irresponsible judges are, intentionally, unethically, drawing out appeals as long as possible, to serve an anti-death penalty agenda (4,5), causing more harm to victim survivors, the pattern (5).
Judges are the case managers, pretrial, trial and within appeals.
If Virginia did it, why can't the other states, the feds and the military? They can.
Bruenig states, correctly, that unnecessarily long appeals are a reason that some loved ones of the innocents murdered do not wish to pursue the death penalty. In complete anti-death penalty, anti-journalism mode, Bruenig never questions why it takes so long, when not necessary.
4) Bruenig states that a sentence of life "just shuts all that down", meaning all further or prolonged appeals.
Sharp: Absurd. A life sentence can mean life long appeals, admittedly rare.
The only thing "that shuts all that down" is by having the death penalty, so that you can have a plea bargain to life without parole (LWOP), which will include no appeals. Such plea bargains may also lead to other convictions and/or locations of the bodies, etc., again, very helpful to the victim survivors, which will go away, with death penalty repeal, well known by the anti-death penalty movement.
Without the death penalty that can never occur, hurting victim survivors, even, more, an anti-death penalty pattern (5).
Without the death penalty, the best plea bargain that can be achieved is a life sentence, with the option of parole, previously found to be, morally, unacceptable, thus, again, hurting victim survivors, more, and putting more innocents at risk, an anti-death penalty pattern (5).
5) Had Bruenig and Commonweal been more concerned about additional trauma for victim survivors, they would have told you that death penalty/executions are required, not just because of the plea bargain aspect, which spares additional trauma and money, as well as solving more aspects of the crimes, but also because death penalty/executions save and protect more innocent lives, in six ways, than does LWOP. (6), showing how unmerciful the anti-death penalty position is. the pattern (5).
As Bruenig states, elsewhere: "For a deterrent to be effective, consequences must seem real." With a death sentence, that is execution (6).
That, never, entered the mercy discussion, even though the greatest of mercies - saving more innocents (6).
Why? My guess? They never considered it because it wasn't in any of the anti-death penalty information they looked at. They would have found all of this, herein, themselves, just as I did, had they been interested (1,5). I am a former death penalty opponent (CV, at bottom).
Bruenig writes, elsewhere: "What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?"
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ELSEWHERE: An immensely moving article: Opinion:"What do we owe her now?" Elizabeth Bruenig, Washington Post, 9/21/2018.
Commonweal's podcast should have been much more about victims, as Amber, in the just above article, and much less about unjust aggressors.
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6) The additional death penalty/execution mercies are eternal.
Romano Amerio: Some opposing capital punishment ". . . go on to assert that a life should not be ended because that would remove the possibility of making expiation, is to ignore the great truth that capital punishment is itself expiatory." (7).
"This fits exactly with St. Thomas’s opinion that as well as canceling out any debt that the criminal owes to civil society, capital punishment can cancel all punishment due in the life to come. His thought is . . . Summa, ‘Even death inflicted as a punishment for crimes takes away the whole punishment due for those crimes in the next life, or a least part of that punishment, according to the quantities of guilt, resignation and contrition; but a natural death does not." (7).
and
Steven Plaut, PhD ". . . capital punishment is regarded by Judaism as a favor for the capital sinner, a form of atonement and redemption." "Ordinary murderers are allowed to achieve atonement for their souls in their execution. " " . . . execution preserves human dignity, it does not defile it." "The Bible makes it crystal clear that the way one acknowledges that human souls are created in God`s image and deserving of respect and dignity is through capital punishment. Not just among Jews, by the way, but among all sons of Noah." " . . . the preservation of human dignity requires capital punishment of convicted murderers. It is precisely because of man`s creation in God`s image that capital punishment is declared justified and necessary." "(Capital punishment) should be implemented because it represents a great moral statement." "It is the moral and ethical thing to do." "Capital punishment represents a moral and just vengeance. It represents a declaration of good and evil." "It is for this moral reason that traditional Judaism unambiguously endorses the death penalty for premeditated murder ." (7).
Much more in fn 7 &10
7) With those first six, one should, easily, see that mercy for murderers is the rule, with justice the, extreme, rarity. Even then, justice is tempered with mercy. Bruenig, somehow, cannot see it (5, 7-11).
8) Bruenig was in error to say we had "extremely high rates of execution in the 90s".
Sharp: During the 90s, we had 478 executions and, as it took as long as 14 years of appeals, prior to execution, when looking at cases from 1976-1999, or 432,000 murders (24 years times 18,000 murders/yr), which is an execution rate of 1 execution for every 904 murders, which is an incredibly low rate of execution, unless Bruenig.
In the 90s, we averaged 48 executions/yr. From 2000-2009, we averaged 59. From 2000-2025, we have averaged 44. We average about 18,000 murders per year. Very, low execution rates/murders, unless Bruenig, putting many more innocents at risk.
Since 1973, we have had around
20,000 ADDITIONAL innocents murdered, by those KNOWN murderers that we have allowed to murder, again - recidivist murderers;
500,000 ADDITIONAL murders by those KNOWN criminals we have allowed to harm, again - recidivist criminals; which equates to
3.5 million ADDITIONAL innocents raped, robbed or, otherwise, assaulted, by those KNOWN criminals that we allowed to harm, again - recidivist criminals (those crimes are 7 times the numbers of our murders).
9) Bruenig: "Public support for the death penalty is at historic lows".
Sharp: If Bruenig, only, looks at the polling carried by anti-death penalty groups that would be true. However, if you look at other polling, particularly those that ask questions and provide answers that reflect our actual death penalty system, polling support for the death penalty, support is much higher (8). Bruenig somehow "missed" it, an anti-death penalty norm. See Preface and (1).
10) Bruenig stated that we cannot make our lives valueless, which is her non-rational view of why executions and other sanctions exist.
Sharp: The reverse of Bruenig's illogic and the truth is that with sanction, we take away that which is valued: money with fines, time and labor with community service, freedom with incarceration and life with execution. Bruenig is unaware that a sanction cannot be a sanction unless we take away that which is valued, the opposite of her reasoning. She has not or cannot see it. Why? How?
11) Bruenig speaks of the image of God as an anti-death penalty example.
Sharp: Using the biblical timeline and facts, the opposite is true, the image of God, was the basis of death penalty support, for all time and for all peoples, as within the Noahic Covenant, for 4500 years and still is, via Genesis 9:6 (9,10). The death penalty is mandated because it shows that the murderer did not respect the image of God, the image within which man was created. It is the murderer who does not value life, with the execution showing the value of life, as per God (9-11).
The Roman Catholic Church has nearly 2000 years of death penalty support from the greatest of Doctors and Fathers of the Church, Popes and Saints, biblical scholars and theologians (10), with the Church having a disastrous anti-death penalty run, 1995-2018 (11) and through today (12).
12) Sharp: Bruenig, I am very sorry for the murder of your sister-in-law, Heather. It doesn't surprise me that your family was not interested in the death penalty, for that crime, as you stated, it was not a death eligible crime. But, he murdered Heather and stole her car, which, in Texas, is a death penalty crime. Why was it not death penalty eligible?
It is a, too common, anti-death penalty standard to state that "my loved one was murdered, but I did not want the death penalty", when they know it wasn't a death penalty eligible crime (13).
In non-scientific polling, I found a 95-99% support for the death penalty/execution, when your loved one was murdered in a death penalty eligible crime, very credible, when finding 86% death penalty support, within scientific polling (8). with people "maintaining their principles", by such support, or not, as per Bruenig. Does Bruenig find pro-death penalty people maintain their principles?
13) Within Christianity, Bruenig skipped the most obvious, not challenged teachings. God's law is, always, the wages of sin are always death, no matter the type of death, be it accident, murder, execution, disease, old age, as all others. It doesn't matter if you are a saint or not, we all die because of sin. Ironclad. Unquestioned. No death nor sin nor person is excluded from that teaching.
The mercy available is everlasting life with God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit. IF you have been saved, which means accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, committing your life to Him, confessing your sins, committed to a life within faith and atonement, all very strong requirements, necessary for forgiveness, realized, only, between individuals and God, as is the teaching.
If there were no requirements for forgiveness and salvation, there would have been no need for the Passion of the Christ, providing the greatest of sacrifice and the greatest of mercies, as per Christian teachings (10).
It is a clear lessen for all Christians, forgiveness has important requirements for the wrongdoer, which are established by the party which was wronged, as God shows.
God may, completely, forgive you, with those requirements met, yet you still die because of your sins, a holy, eternal law, representing grace, justice and mercy, combined, together, at once, fully accepted and unchallenged, within Christianity.
Yet, Bruenig, finds the death penalty un-Christian. Why not all deaths? Bruenig? God never makes that exception. Quite the contrary (10). My take - anti-death penalty folks make that exception, ruling over God (5 {see Prejean}, 10).
14) Is Bruenig so ignorant about lethal injection, as described in the Preface?
Bruenig said botched executions like Lockett's and Hamm's "happen all the time"
Sharp:. Utter nonsense (14).
Even anti-death penalty deceptions put "botched" lethal injection executions at 7%, meaning not botched 93% of the time. (14) For Bruenig 7% means "all the time", not the 93%. That is the reasoning used by Bruenig.
The real botched lethal injection execution rate is closer to 1%, if one fact checks and vets (14).
Lethal injection is a controlled drug overdose, which can and does include, while unconscious, spasms, jerking, gasping, groaning, outbursts, violent movements, death throes, etc., then dying. Very well known, if one is interested (14), Bruenig? See Preface.
Bruenig tells us about the poor murderers and "forgot" these:
Clayton Lockett: The Case for Execution
Hamm murdered hotel night clerk Patrick Cunningham during a robbery.
Regarding victimization, Bruenig writes, elsewhere: "I didn’t want to be the last person to look away."
Botched Medical/Patient IVs - 35-50%
"Intravenous (IV) procedures, while vital for delivering fluids and medications, can also lead to complications like infiltrations, extravasations, and nerve damage, potentially causing patient harm and even death. IV infiltration, where fluid leaks into the surrounding tissue, is a common issue, with failure rates ranging from 35% to 50%. Severe complications, including nerve damage and even amputation, can result from IV extravasation." (14).
Anti-death penalty activist/academic Prof. Austin Sarat found all methods of execution, 1890-2010, had a 3% botched rate, meaning 97% not. My analysis found there was a 1% botched rate within lethal injection, while Sarat found it a 7% (14). Bruenig found 100% of electrocutions botched. Sarat found it 1.92%. Keep that in mind, with Bruenig.
15) Bruenig's discussion of what a hard time the murderer, Kenny Smith, had: "The most difficult time I have ever seen someone (Smith) go through, in any context in my life." "That degree of psychological terror and suffering cannot be overstated". "His final weeks on earth were nightmarish." "not anything that anyone should have to go through."
Sharp: The name, life and nightmare that Elizabeth Bruenig left out, because it was not important to her nor to Commonweal or it just, never, crossed their minds (5): Ask them?
Smith's innocent murder victim, Elizabeth Sennett.
Over a period of time that must have seemed an eternity, Elizabeth was beaten to death, with fists, a large cane and any other items available and then switched to knives. She was screaming for the murderers to stop, that they could steal anything they wanted. But they did not stop.
The coroner testified that Elizabeth Sennett had been stabbed eight times in the chest and once on each side of the neck, and had suffered numerous abrasions and cuts. It was the coroner's opinion that Sennett died of multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck.
It is for the innocent murder victims, the horrors for which we, specifically and, only, have the death penalty, with the suffering of the innocent murder victims "not anything that anyone should have to go through", Bruenig's quote for the murderers, not their innocent victims, duplicating Prejean (elsewhere and fn 5 {see Prejean}).
"It's Just Wrong"
In Closing
As Catholic theologian Steven Long places the arrow, in post 1994 anti-death penalty Catholic rhetoric:
" . . . (it) is symptomatic of a society that can garner more support to spare the guilty than to save the innocent."
"The crowd still wants Barrabas." (15)
Or, as Bruenig duplicates, elsewhere: "another moment of clarity that could have turned toward reform instead degenerated into a rally for the guilty."
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an extra:
From the intro:
Dominic Preziosi , editor Commonweal "Only China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen execute more people than the United States does."
Sharp: Such comparisons are non-sensical, without noting, in the last 53 years, many other countries have executed more than the US, there is no country that limits the death penalty, more than the US, and which has the greatest of due process protections, than the US, has such a low execution rate, based upon population and violent crime rates, on a per capita violent crime rate, the US executes far fewer than others and what crimes are eligible for the death penalty. They are, completely, different death penalty worlds.
All important and left out, of course, foretelling what was to come.
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FN
1) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
2) While only 10-15% of murders, perhaps fewer, are death penalty eligible, we start off our mercy review with how limited the death penalty has become with the guided discretion of Gregg v Georgia (SCOTUS, 1976). I start with 1973, as three states passed new laws, in 1973, after Furman v Georgia (SCOTUS, 1972) found all existing death penalty statutes unconstitutional, with Gregg finding those new 1973 death penalty statutes constitutional, in 1976.
3) Texas Death Penalty Procedures: Super Due Process
4) Judicial Disaster: Their Anti-death Penalty Mess
5) 30 Examples: How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers More Than Their Innocent Victims:
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
and
Anti-Victim: Anti-death Penalty Movement
and
Sister Helen Prejean: Her Lies, Deceptions . . . and/or
Astounding Willful Ignorance? - A Compilation
6) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives
and
7) The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
more in fn 10
8) 86% Death Penalty Support, Depending Upon Crime Committed
New Evidence of Broad Support for Death Penalty | RealClearPolicy, Joseph M. Bessette & J. Andrew Sinclair, RealClearPolicy August 16, 2021
These polls, above and below, reflect well known polls, for the last 15 years, showing much higher death penalty support than by the oft quoted, much less accurate Gallup, as even, Gallup shows (see Gallup's McVeigh poll (below) vs their standard poll)
b) Death Penalty Polling
updated 3/2023
86% Death Penalty Support, Depending Upon Crime Committed
95-99% Support From Victim Survivors in Death Penalty Cases
c) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
World Support Remains High
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
9) a part of para 21, Religion and the Death Penalty(fn 10).
Part II: " . . . even Catholic scholar E. Christian Brugger, who is not only opposed to capital punishment but would like the Church to go as far as condemning it as intrinsically immoral, admits that there is what he calls a “patristic consensus” on the thesis that capital punishment is legitimate at least in principle, even among those who opposed resorting to it in practice (Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, p. 95)."
" . . . in A Treatise on the Soul, Tertullian says that “we do not account those to be violent deaths which justice awards, that avenger of violence.” Lactantius, in The Divine Institutes, acknowledges that a man can be “justly condemned to [be] slain.” In Ad Demetrianum, Cyprian indicates that if Christianity really were a crime, the state would justly “put the man that confesses it to death.” These Fathers did indeed nevertheless oppose the use of the death penalty in practice, but they do not teach that it is intrinsically wrong."
"Genesis 9:6 famously states: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.” This passage has for millennia been understood by Catholic and Jewish commentators as sanctioning the death penalty, and as Bessette and I show at pp. 99-101 of our book, there is no plausible alternative way of reading it."
" . . . the Old Testament merely permits, but does not require, slavery and polygamy. The Israelites are not told that they must take slaves or marry more than one woman. They are told at most only that if they do these things, then there are certain conditions they must follow. By contrast, the use of the death penalty is positively commanded many times in the Old Testament. Moreover, these commands are not ad hoc in nature, directed to some specific temporary purpose (as are divine directives to the Israelites to destroy this or that pagan city, say). Rather, the Mosaic Law makes the death penalty a standing and normal part of the everyday life of the nation of Israel."
"Hence, if capital punishment were intrinsically or of its very nature “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” we would be left with the conclusion that scripture not only permitted, but positively commanded the Israelites to set up the very structure of their society in a manner that was inherently and gravely contrary to the good of human beings. We would be left with the conclusion that scripture thereby led the Israelites into grave moral error. But that is not possible given the Church’s doctrine that scripture cannot teach moral error."
Much more on Genesis 9:6, in FN 10
10) Religion and the Death Penalty
11) Catechism & The Death Penalty Problems: Section 2267:
A Rational Deconstruction of Catholic Revisionism, 1995-2019
A Rational Deconstruction of Catholic Revisionism, 1995-2019
and
2018 CCC 2267 amendment: 13 (15) Factual Errors
12) Pope Francis Drove the Last Spike Through the Church's Anti-death Penalty Era, with this: Capital executions, "far from bringing justice, fuel a sense of revenge that becomes a dangerous poison for the body of our civil societies," Pope Francis wrote, August, 2024 ("Death penalty fuels 'poison' of revenge in society, pope says", US Conference of Catholic Bishops,
https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/death-penalty-fuels-poison-revenge-society-pope-says)
How is it that neither Pope Francis, nor anyone at the Vatican, nor anyone within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is aware that the Church claims that it cannot teach moral error, which is, of course, contradicted by Francis, who tells us the Church has been teaching moral error for over 2000 years.
That, factually and morally, defines the Catholic Church's disastrous anti-death penalty era, 1995 forward, as detailed, with no rebuttal nor correction, from the Church, since 1995.
13) Rep. Renny Cushing: Death Penalty in New Hampshire
Why Cushing is Dead Wrong
Why Cushing is Dead Wrong
14) Rebuttal: Botched Executions
Lethal Injection & Nitrogen Hypoxia: Controversies Resolved
Lethal Injection & Nitrogen Hypoxia: Controversies Resolved and
Rebuttal: "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection"
15) Four Catholic Journals Indulge in (anti death penalty) Doctrinal Solipsism,
Steven Long, THOMISTICA, March 5, 2015,
http://thomistica.net/commentary/2015/3/5/mutationist-views-of-doctrinal-development-and-the-death-penalty
http://thomistica.net/commentary/2015/3/5/mutationist-views-of-doctrinal-development-and-the-death-penalty
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