Is capital punishment ethically wrong

While I did offer a serial killer as one example of real monsters being part of society, this is supposed to be a debate on the moral grounds for capital punishment and there are a lot more 1 time horrible killers than serial killers. We have seen thousands of example of killers in general escaping or getting paroled then killing again, the only way to stop a killer permanently is you execute them. Anything short of execution and there is always a chance they kill again. I will again address your using old data of previous mistakes in capital punishment with my point of early mistakes in vaccinations that have killed thousands of people, even today there are rare cases of vaccinations hurting and killing those who are vaccinated. So if your argument is stuck in the distant past and ignoring all improvements made this can relate to vaccinations as well meaning we should never vaccinate anyone..... right? I say no, we should not toss out modern improvements because old actions had mistakes. Framed for a crime? Let's not confuse this debate of real moral issues connected to real use of capital punishment with fantasy and blockbuster movies. Only about 3% of all criminal cases ever make it to trial, less than 1% of those end up as a case where capital punishment is on the table. The cases are so incredibly rare that the chances of a true criminal case being a product of a complex and perfect frame is zero. Today there is always other supportive evidence that a frame job is impossible unless everyone from the victim to the Judge is in on the conspiracy. The problem with conspiracies is in today's world, there is a lot of money to be made if one of the conspirators squeals, there is no loyalty, only self preservation and money so that keeps the system from being able to maintain a mass conspiracy. You seem to be stuck in an understanding of our legal system from 30 years ago where all of the things you mention were in fact a common problem, and like vaccinations we have come a long way and have fixed our mistakes, today with things like DNA evidence we can wave goodbye to those days and move on to better days. Yes, locks keep honest people honest, and laws are the locks on bad behaviors that keep normal people from doing things like murder. Only the truly evil cross that line and kill and evil does not follow rules or laws, it must be faced with firm and unrelenting resolve. Only capital punishment can stop cases like Steven Prat, a convicted killer released from prison who bludgeoned his 64-year-old mother to death when he was released and it happened during his release party. Or let's consider the case of Scottie Thompson who only served 24 of the 45 year sentence, was released early from prison and killed again while wearing an ankle monitor, beating his 20 year old victim that he had just met that day to death. Nice try my friend but you clearly said that Obama using capital punishment to kill suspected terrorists was good, let me quote you again, "Obama's stricter penalties for terrorists, which in my mind isn't a bad thing since terrorists are despicable". Isn't a bad thing? I clearly said Obama was killing people and you said it "isn't a bad thing". Let me clarify, I am talking about cases like this: http://www.theatlantic.com... Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was just 16 years old and an American Citizen, he was not a terrorist and had never hinted at attacking anyone. He had last seen his father who was definitely not a good guy two years before his own death. But my own point in using this example is that even when mistakes are made in the use of capital punishments help the people at home feel safe and justified as even you have clearly shown support of the use of capital punishment against those you see as " despicable, sordid and a travesty of the human race" to use your own words.