Thoughts

Capital punishment is wrong, and I don't believe that it should even exist anywhere in the world. Yes, maybe by using the death sentence money could be saved. But you cannot compare money when it comes to people's lives. That should never be justified as a reason to kill. It is not right because the cost of someone's life is much greater than money or bettering the economy. It is not humane to kill someone no matter what crime a person commits. I understand that you need to commit a very serious crime to even be considered for the death penality, however most people that commit these serious crimes are not well.
I don't think that to commit a crime that bad a person is all there. A lot of these people are mentally ill, have horrible childhood's that have made them become someone different, and have a past that none of us could ever imagine. Some people don't know anything different. They've never known anything else but bad. Sometimes their brain didn't develop right and they don't feel emotion, there is something wrong with them and they need help.
People who commit these horrible crimes, are not people like you and me. They are not normal. They don't think or act like most people. There is always a reason for why people are the way they are. We have no idea what some of these really bad criminals have been through in their life or why they have done the things they've done.
Some people have just been through too much that they lose it. And yes, some people are just evil. They just are that way, and people who study these criminals are still trying to figure out why.
Whatever the case, it is so wrong to take the lives of these criminals. They are people too. And they need help. Killing them is not the answer. I'm not saying they shouldn't pay for the crimes they committed, I'm just saying taking their life is not the way to go about it.