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  Emotionally I am with you - people who harm and kill people, especially children, are those I could probably see off myself with little trouble. But the reasons for a structured legal system include the drive to protect our humanity and protect individuals from their own impulses, as well as to set boundaries for behaviours. If the death penalty was a deterrent, and therefore a protection for the rest of us, there would not be as much violent crime in those places where it is still in use - and the stats show us that in fact the reverse is true. The only purpose it could serve is financial - we could save the funding of a prison place. But Mareks information indicates that even this is not the case So it boils down to a simple need for blood. This is not sufficient justification for state sanctioned murder, which is what it would be, no question.
  
  There is also no such thing as a totally safe conviction when we are talking about terminating a life.

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