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I don't think anybody, including the state, has the right to kill somebody unless in self-defense. I don't see capital punishment as serving any useful purpose to society whatsoever, and it violates the sanctity of human life. I also find it sickening, and appalling that medical experts are involved in facilitating executions.
And that's all independent of the fact that 95% of all defendants can't afford a lawyer, that executions are raced based (if your victim is white you're much more likely to be executed than if your victim is black), that capital punishment does not deter and is more likely to increase the murder rate (to eliminate witnesses), that's it's less costly to society not to execute, etc. etc.
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