You don't have anything either, ok you and the Kennedys and the Kings? so what? nothing you said is anymore valid than what I said.
All I'm saying is that this statement:
All the people who want the death penalty abolished will have a completely different view on it if someone rapes and murders their family, than they will want to burn that man at the stake.
Is simply not true, and I provided examples to the contrary. I suspect the statement is based on your belief that YOU would change your mind if you opposed the death penalty and therefore everyone else should/would.
But in reality, that's not the case. People who oppose the death penalty before having a love one violently taken from them often oppose the death penalty after as well.