Death Penalty should be Abolished in all States

You've brought up that people who are sentenced to death have done terrible things, but that their lives are still worth something. The people that are sentenced to death row have proven, to themselves and to others, that that have no quarrels with hurting another individual and, if you remember the aggravating factors that go into deciding the death penalty, then we can rightly assume that this pain their inflicting upon others is atrocious and monstrous. Is their life really worth something after they've devalued themselves by hurting someone else substantially? We're talking about someone who has no pity for humanity. Someone that is able to take human life and play god with humans without second guessing themselves. We're talking about someone who is so psychologically-damaged that they're able to inflict pain and suffering upon others without remorse. I believe that if someone is able to do that to other people, then they are not fit for our society and should be put to death. They are not contributing anything positive to our community and will have proven that their behavior cannot change. Why should we, as taxpayers, put forth money to people that will be nothing but living up to an expensive punishment for no conclusion other than them "being in time-out" for a crime they committed. Pardon me for replying to your question with another question, but I'm very curious to know: how do you think these people will contribute and pay their dues to a society when they've proven that they're out for nothing but hurting innocent people? Consider the death row inmate Mark Goudeau; he was charged nine counts of first degree murder, fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a slew of armed robberies. If you research this person, you'll see that the descriptions of his crimes are absolutely horrifying and disgusting. He was actively killing in Arizona for an entire year, obviously continuing his actions without remorse or anguish and, if he wasn't caught, he would most likely be hurting others to this day. To give you another question. Mark Goudeu, a serial killer and rapist, who hurt the lives of so many people throughout his one year of actively committing crime, is his life is worthy of something positive to our society? You tell me that people don't deserve the death penalty and that everyone's life is worth something, but can you honestly tell me that Mr. Goudeu didn't deserve his punishment? For killing those women, breaking up families, for psychologically damaging good members of our society - his life is worth more than him getting lethal injection? If we were to take an alternative point, your "solitary cells and special facilities", what's to say that these people couldn't escape? Although the statistics revolving around prison escapes are very low (nearly 1%), we're still giving this person the chance to escape and continue his crimes - even migrating him to another area to do it in. Institutions like that make mistakes, mistakes so grave that it could give Mark Goudeu a chance to escape and hurt others. Capital punishment doesn't make mistakes, their life is taken and they are no longer able to become a detriment to our society, whether it be economically (paying our money to keep them hospitalized in an institution) or giving these criminals the chance to kill others, either in prison or outside of the walls. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org...