text: There is no Catholic teaching that “if you are against abortion then one must also be against the death penalty”.
  
  Abortion involves the murder of a completely innocent human life. It is intrinsically immoral. The prohibition against abortion applies to both individuals and to the State.
  
  The death penalty can never be a personal moral issue because an individual can never levy it. The right to levy the death penalty belongs ONLY to the State, and the State’s authority arises from the Natural Law. The individual who receive the punishment is not innocent, and has brought the punishment upon her or his own head.
  
  Human live in societies, societies require leaders, laws, and punishments for their very existence.