you're never going to get your "perfect case" to debate whether you want to empathize with a dead American or not capital punishment has been abolished by the

you're never going to get your "perfect case" to debate whether you want to empathize with a dead American or not capital punishment has been abolished by the will of the people using their representatives in all of the states in question extrajudicial capital punishment was never the will of the people, yet it slivers through the institution of the autonomous state concept with almost complete impunity what you're wishing for is an absurdity