There are alot of people in the West that support the death penalty, particularly in Canada. Too many people that are guilty are given the death penalty, I think that this increases the probability that innocent people are killed. Although if the qualifications for the death penalty were stricter, less innocent people would be accidentally put on death row or be killed.

The death penalty is very humane, especially in the West. In most other countries, people get stoned to death or ran over, legs first, by steam-rollers. Clearly there is no suffering with the death penalty in the U.S. and there is a very complex process of legal action that is completed before administration of the punishment.

Administering the death penalty also eliminates the possibility of an offender being killed in prison, or the offender escaping from prison and killing again. Often child-killers are released in Canada before their sentance is over because they acted 'nice' in prison and simply go out and rape/kill babies again. If they were given the death penalty, it would completely eliminate this possibility.