A large part of the organized activism against the death penalty is also run by christians, especially catholics and orthodox who are a lot more consistent on t

A large part of the organized activism against the death penalty is also run by christians, especially catholics and orthodox who are a lot more consistent on this. It's not the christianity per se that makes them bloodthirsty. Contemporary american evangelical christianity is a novel social-political-religious movement and in some theologically significant ways has broken with near-universal christian tradition. Trying to understand it purely as a religion is too incomplete.