To laugh or to cry?

In the last few days a new debate about reintroducing the death penalty developed. The Church of course tried (this is a good word) to voice Her opinion in the discussion. However even in this issue, so obvious for a "traditional catholic" the Polish Church divided. Some people accept it, some of them vehemently oppose the penalty, and there are also many who are undecisive. It seems quite bizarre for me, because in so called Catechism of the Catholic Church the issue is explained quite explicitly:

The traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsibility of the offender, recourse to the death penalty, when this is the only practicable way to defend the lives of human beings effectively against the aggressor.
"If, instead, bloodless means are sufficient to defend against the aggressor and to protect the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
"Today, in fact, given the means at the State's disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender 'today ... are very rare, if not practically non-existent.' (CCC 2267)

Taking the paragraph into consideration, the situation is simple: if there is a way to defend the society against the agressor  no death penalty is necessary; if it is the other way round, it should be used. One session of the Polish Episcopate should suffice to draw up the common standpoint. But, as the Polish proverb says, Polak potrafi (literary meaning: a Pole can [do everything]). As you can see, Polish clergy will not miss even a simply opportunity to discredit and attenuate the Church in the eyes of the already laicized society