Every birthday, every holiday, on every anniversary of the crime. If you know someone who's been affected by violence, be with them. Our society tends to ignore people who are hurting because it's awkward being around pain, he said. So their needs get met in unhealthy ways. For Christians, executions stop further opportunities a killer might have to reconcile with God.
Someone can actually experience remorse and become a different person.
You can never know who God's going to choose to work through. But there are other, non-religious reasons to reject the death penalty, reasons that show, county by county and state by state, that the ultimate punishment is arbitrary and unfair. The number of death-row inmates who have been found, through more thorough examinations of the evidence, to be innocent. The disparity in crimes that send people to death row. The disproportionate number of minorities sentenced to die.