This isn't the time of the Hammurabi's Code. We don't do an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Let alone a life for a life. You shouldn't get killed for committing a crime. Because technically, doesn't that make the criminal the person who does the killing? But no, since the government approved it, it doesn't make it crime. That just doesn't seem justified to me.

88% of the worlds criminologists agree that the capital punishment is bad.

Also, 87% agree that abolishing the death penalty would not lower crime rates.

75% of the responses to this agree that “debates about the death penalty distract Congress and state legislatures from focusing on real solutions to crime problems.”