Man-made criminal justice can never be possibly so infallible and perfect so as to warrant capital punishment. For all the good intentions those who support the death penalty have, I believe it never makes society safer but rather more dangerous. Executions arising out of wrongful convictions can and do happen. The death penalty and executions are most prevalent in redneck hick states where people are often undereducated. The death penalty is a prime example of ignorance and backward ways. Juries and judges in homophobic redneck states can be racially prejudiced or might not like you if your perceived to be a "damn-yankee" or a homosexual on trial for murder. The notion of being wrongfully executed by the state is much more scary to me than the notion of being killed by an escaped convicted murderer. An innocent/law-abiding person who owns a gun (or even a good watchdog as a German Shepherd) can better defend him/herself against a dangerous escaped fugitive than he/she could defend him/herself if the guards were to be wrongfully strapping him/her to the chair.
Why do I live in a death-penalty-happy red state like Oklahoma full of nasty weather, toll roads, higher grocery prices, horrible grocery selection, 9% grocery tax, lousy street pavement maintenance, rude cab companies, rude welfare workers, dumb hicks, flash floods, no expansion for Medicaid, and tornadoes right now? Because I am an American Veteran on a low-income VA disability pension benefit and states like these, unfortunately, are all I can afford to be able to live a cheap 1-br apartment. The positive side is Oklahoma is highly pro-gun and I feel that since Governor Stitt in this state just signed Constitution Carry into law this year, violent crime in this state should drop considerably. The death penalty alone evidently has not done a good job of protecting the innocent since Oklahoma has had a high rate of violent crime per capita before Constitution Carry. Yes, there is compromise all over America. Non-death penalty states tend to be more anti-gun and expensive to live in.