We all have the right to our own lives, and to protect this and other rights we institute governments. When a government begins to violate the rights of the citizens, by killing them, then it has violated the sacred democratic trust between government and governed. It would seem to me that those who claim to most fear government intervention and intrusion would be dead set against the death penalty. However, the right wing seems to be more afraid that the government will take away their guns than horrified at the prospect of the government taking away their lives. The socialists in our society should love the death penalty.
Socialism persists, because some central authority is free to end dissention with a noose.
Yet it is those people who are against it. We have a big mess on our hands, and the solution is to look at what made our nation great. We have been free to pursue our enrichment without the government stepping in and forcing us to work for some other purpose. We have been free to say what we want without fear that we could be jailed or killed for treason. We have been able to pursue our own spiritual development without being told what to believe by politicians.