Because the Death Penalty is final and it has been misused literally hundreds of times to kill innocent people. As someone associated with the adult industry, you are no doubt familiar with the concept of selective enforcement. When the State selectively enforces laws that cause a person to die, there is a glaring interest in holding the State to the highest degree of accountability as part of the process to prove its claims.
Here is a list of 153 death row inmates who have been exonerated and released:
Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row | Death Penalty Information Center
Since the inception of DNA evidence, more than 329 people have been completely exonerated by evidence that could not have been examined during their trials.
Home ? The Innocence Project
The government should not be haphazardly killing people under the false claim that it is serving the public good. More importantly, when someone you know is falsely accused and sentenced, having adequate access to the appeals process becomes much more important than the cost of the appeals.
The best solution is to do away with the death penalty entirely. It serves zero actual purpose. It has never been a deterrent and it allows for zero progress to be completed because the perpetrator is six feet under. Instead, convicted criminals should be studied by law enforcement for the purpose of solving crimes better or preventing other crimes, by society to determine causal links between personality and crime that might be addressed, and the criminals should be required to do a humane amount of work to offset the cost of their incarceration. Put simply, they are worth much more to us alive than dead anyway.