Because If You Oppose the Death Penalty....

Okay... somebody explain this to me:

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Gunmen opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras late Thursday, killing at least 23 passengers and wounding 16 others, police said. Many aboard were women and children.

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It wasn't immediately clear who carried out the attack. But Torres said the assailants left a note saying they represented a revolutionary group that opposes the death penalty and which contained vulgar comments about congressional President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who has suggested instituting the death penalty for severe crimes.

Okay... you don't really have to explain it. It makes a crude sort of sense if you assume that this group opposes the death penalty on purely practical grounds - it doesn't want its thugs and murderers to face possible execution when they are caught.