I genuinely can't follow your logic at all, leaving aside what on earth a watered down capital punishment involves, or the conflatory and implicitly derogatroy use of the terms apologist and left, you seem to think a country that has the legal killing of women who commit adultey as getting it right. Once more here, society is imperfect because people are imperfect, you acknowledge that watering down capital punishment is a sign of maturity because it acknowledges that, then say that however that is being apologist for criminals and will bring about barbarity (though no evidence of us heading that way that that I can see). Remeber just because the daily mail screams about our society falling apart doesn't mean it is.