There are some that love it and take it up as a cause and will do anything to prevent some deserving person from being executed.
For example, I posted this information yesterday. Here in Missouri we've got a guy on death row - Michael Taylor who has been there for 25 years. He raped, tortured, and murdered a 15 year old girl, and it looked as if his time had run out and he's finally up for execution. But his lawyers have found something new to gum up the works. Missouri uses lethal injection and what most people don't realize is that since major pharmaceutical firms won't get their hands dirty in this area, all states depend on small, mom-and-pop companies to prepare and sell the chemicals used in the execution process. Well Taylor's crack legal team have now gone after the company that they believe supplies Missouri with the drugs we use, and basically made it clear that they were prepared to plaster the company name all over the media and, if possible, destroy their business. As a result the state doesn't have the stuff it needs for the execution. Taylor's attornies are in court claiming that whatever phenobarbital the state has must have passed the expiration date and using it might cause undue suffering to Taylor. The governor claims the execution will go on as scheduled but I don't know.
Not a word, you note, about Ann Harrison, his victim. She was 15 when killed. She'd be 40 today.
Lawyers are scum. (Said with aplogies to my lawyer boy friend who really is a sweet guy but sorry honey, facts are facts.)
One of many reasons why we need to go back to public hangings in the courthouse square. Rope is available at any hardware store.