I'm all for the death penalty. My only problem is the way in which it is handed out. It kinda sucks how a guy who rapes and murders a family can get life without parole, and some 18 year old kid who grows up in the streets, ends up in a gang, and ends up killing some other gang member, can get the death sentence. All based on the judges decision.
I also think there should be substantial evidence linking the murderer to the crime before a death sentence is handed out. There have been too many people killed, or locked up for years awaiting the death penalty, to later find out they didn't do it.