The death penalty...regardless of your crime...should not exist.

Why?

Because witnesses, cops, attorneys, judges make mistakes...and tell lies.

Many times witnesses cant even remember what the criminal looked like and they just guess at the line up. Or they wait for the cop to lead them to the "right" one. Cops will often make an assumption early on and stop the investigation and just try and manipulate reality to fit their guess. Video tape doesn't always tell the whole story.

I don't really care about the moral aspects of it. We as a species are always at war, we factory farm animals for food and i just murdered like a million insects in my back yard a couple days ago because i don't want my dogs to get tics so obviously humanity is cool with killing. But...Until we have technology that can allow us to look into peoples minds and know for sure i don't think the death penalty has a place in modern society.