One thing is, that if you throw in an exhaustive detailed forensic investigation to make sure that there is no innocent people facing death, that would actually be something that would save innocents from being executed.
One of the best arguments against the death penalty is that innocent people do get caught up and end up executed.
And one of the best arguments for the death penalty is the 0% Recidivism Rate.
Everyone’s gonna’ die at some point. They had their ‘fair’ trial by jury and were found guilty and then were found deserving of the death penalty by another phase.
How many times out of a thousand do you think they get it wrong? In my opinion, not enough to shut down the entire system. Laws must have real teeth or you will just have more victims. Saving innocent victims from murderers is worth the very small percentage of mistakes made by courts and juries.