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For a variety of reasons it costs several times more in the US to run someone through the legal process and ultimately execute them, than to imprison them for life without parole. This is a ridiculous situation, but while it is the case, the death penalty makes little practical sense for the community at large.
Were that not the case, I would not only support the death penalty, but extend it to cover many lesser crimes. I couldn't care less about the rights of criminals: they have chosen to break the law and if they do so, knowing the penalties for being caught, that is their problem. Whatever they have done, the law should be such that they don't get chance to do it again.
Nor am I very interested in the argument that sometimes the innocent are wrongly convicted. We live in an imperfect world and there are far more innocent victims of criminals who are left at large, than innocents who are imprisoned or executed in error.
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