Catholic Church doesn't really "Respect Life" after all, it seems

Last week, as I wrote earlier, a 41 year old woman with a tested IQ of 72--one Teresa Lewis--was executed by capital punishment and it seems the Catholic Church was nearly completely silent on her case. This week, another inmate is set to be executed in California--he "gets" to choose his method of death, too, bizarrely enough--and again, it seems the Catholic Church is utterly quiet, in spite of their "Respect Life" campaign. I don't get it. Apparently they only "Respect Some Life" and not all? Is that it? Can someone explain this to me because I don't get it. I assume, maybe, they don't want to upset their followers on this subject because they want to be all "right wing" and punishment or something but it surely seems like a big, gaping hypocrisy to a lot of us out here. I should think there would be a huge contingency of people fighting for now this man to not be put to death but no such brouhaha from the Catholics, to date, it seems. Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/us/24execute.html?ref=capital_punishment; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/25execute.html?_r=1&ref=capital_punishment; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27execute.html?_r=1&ref=capital_punishment