I think he would not be in favor of capital punishment because he would think that killing someone is wrong just as putting someone to death for killing someone else would be wrong no matter what the emotion was involved. Ayer was an analytic philosopher, so he would have been more interested in what you meant by capital punishment than in what your emotions were regarding the issue. Ayer would be more interested in what is right and wrong, as opposed to what you believe is right and wrong. There are no gray areas with Ayer. Killing someone and stealing someone's lunch money would be the same thing in Ayers' eyes because it is