I essentially agree with you. The justice system is run by humans, and so the justice system is fallible. People who were on death row get their convictions overturned sometimes. Police don't always do their job right, or may get lazy and take the wrong person to court. The saying goes that it's better to release a criminal than convict a person who is innocent. We shouldn't give the state the ability to easily arrest and continue to grow our prison population, the largest on earth per Capita.

I also believe that all life is divine and precious, even those who do evil There have been times people have been put to death with capital punishment then cleared of the crime after death. The state did all the things required to be confident in their decision to kill a citizen, yet they still get it wrong sometimes.

I don't think it's worth it to go through all the legal things in order to execute someone. Which is good, we should give someone as much of a case as possible and to have absolutely no doubt if the state is putting people to death. But the cost of putting a prisoner to death is very often more expensive than it would be to just house them in prison the rest of their natural life. The state shouldn't have the ability to kill its own citizens, even if they were convicted of a heinous crime.