I'm against the death penalty...
short of witnesses and confessions (that are not forced) there is very rarely any conviction that is beyond a shadow of a doubt...
Lok at it this way, you say Paedophiles should get the death penalty...
what about a case like the current case against Michael Jackson, there are plenty of people comming forward to sell stories saying that they were molested. but there are plenty more people who are saying that they weren't and believed he'd not do such a thing...
Same for murder, There is rarely ever truly conclusive proof, DNA testing is not 100% accurate, there is always a remote possibility that yuo've killed the wrong person.
if you imprisson the wrong person then they can always be released, but if they are dead there s no way they are coming back.
That said the prisons around the world are over crowded and tre repeat offenders/mass murderers etc who will litterally die behind bars, well somewhere inside I think why should they live their lives in jail... in a lot of countries in the world, (britain and america included) the people in pemtention seem to recieve better treatment than people say in state run care homes, honest people who in many cases fuoght for our freedoms, and they live in smaller rooms, get less exercise, less privellages in the way of technologies, and cheaper meas, (hell in britain its been shown that people inside the prison system have more money spent on their meals than school kids, retirement homes, and hospitals!
so yes in the c ase of a real 'lifer' I think the death penalty is more sutable than a life behind bars simply to free up either the cell space, or the money he government pays to run prisons.