Justice and Mercy

Percentage of Americans who support the death penalty:
65%

Percentage of Christian Americans who support the death penalty:
74%

Why is this?

I’m wondering if it means that those of us who are Christians understand God’s justice better than we understand God’s mercy.

Remember brothers and sisters, in the words of the 14^th century priest
William Langland:

But all the wickedness of the world which man may do or think
is no more to the mercy of God
than a live coal dropped in the sea.

-Tim