[Xaccers]

Justice should not be about revenge.
If murder is taking a life with malice, then the state execution should be taking a life as punishment and without malice, otherwise it's no different to murderers.

Course, I dissagree with the death penalty as you can't make amends to an innocent man you've executed.
Posthumous pardons only help the family, not those wrongfully convicted.
One innocent man executed is one too many.

Watched a documentary about Albert Pierrepoint, and that was very interesting, the amount of pride he took in his work, ensuring everything went properly so that the condemned would suffer the least possible.