honestly if you think the death penalty has merit fuck you, you should be ashamed at your lack of humanity. Firstly death penalty is used to scare oppressed people into line, and it does no fucking good, it is pure evil even when murders are executed because it ignores so many socioeconomic, and psychobiology that leads someone down that path, why not fix the major underlying problem, also it is less privledged groups that recieve it most.