I don't claim to be an expert on Catholicism so there's probably an explanation for this. I can certainly understand someone considering themselves a devout Catholic and therefore an adherent to the church's opposition to the Death Penalty. I can even understand someone considering themselves a devout Catholic but admitting that they disagree with the church about the Death Penalty. What I can't understand is someone considered themselves a devout Catholic and just kind of pretending the church supports the Death Penalty. You'd think the longest-serving Justice of the Supreme Court would be able to cope with a fact that didn't support his personal prejudice.