Quote from aliveDeath penalty is terribly wrong and stupid, for one simple reason: the law system is not infallible. Even if you disregard all the ways a corrupt government could abuse the death penalty, fact is that an innocent person could still be wrongly convicted and executed, and that alone is reason enough not to have capital punishment. Any system where the government has the right to legally kill an innocent person based on the conviction that that person is guilty, is a fundamentally flawed, and backwards system.
Exactly.
Even if you argue that some peoples' commit horrible crimes, have no chance of reform, deserve death or whatnot, it doesn't change the fact that giving the judicial system the power to kill somebody is just plain scary.