[...] Many laws consider a premeditated crime more serious than a crime of pure violence. But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? [...]
hint: he's against the death penalty
also just realised that "capital" originally meant "head" (via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput 'head') which explains the terms "capital punishment" and "decapitation" and even "capital city"; for "capital" as in "capitalism", it comes from heads of cattle (and other animals) being the original proto-currency