Those who are disturbed or appalled by the GOP applause for the death penalty las night might want to come up with more empirically-based arguments for why it is wrong to cheer for death other than it being “cruel”, “hard-hearted”, “depraved”, “un-Christian” or “bloodlusty”. Explain your opposition to such approval in a way that an atheist can understand and parse. Don’t appeal to unfounded and fickle “moral” sentiments.