I'm surprised to see this doesn't also make another argument: It's not economical.
Because we rightfully try to set a high bar and have many delays, opportunities for appeal to minimize executing innocent people and also need high security confinement (since someone sentenced to death doesn't have a lot to lose in attempting to escape...) the entire process is extraordinarily expensive.
The resources we spend on it could instead be spend elsewhere and save lot of lives, cut taxes, -- whatever stokes your particular political perspective would be better off if we weren't spending resources killing people.
Because we rightfully try to set a high bar and have many delays, opportunities for appeal to minimize executing innocent people and also need high security confinement (since someone sentenced to death doesn't have a lot to lose in attempting to escape...) the entire process is extraordinarily expensive.
The resources we spend on it could instead be spend elsewhere and save lot of lives, cut taxes, -- whatever stokes your particular political perspective would be better off if we weren't spending resources killing people.