Abolishing the death penalty, in my opinion, is just one step along the way to abolishing prisons. Once the death penalty goes, the new target will become life without parole. Then life sentences, and so on.
It’s not a principle. It’s an agenda.
Locally a woman just got 8 years PROBATION for conviction in a murder for hire plot against her husband (paid $1000 to a friend who went straight to the police).