Dunno if you're a Brit OMF but I can give you 20 reasons why the death penalty (in UK ) must never slither back into our lives: Guildford 4, Birmingham 6, McGuire 8, Barry George.
All of these innocents would be dead because of the lies and corruption of West Midlands and Metropolitan Police.
Add to the above incontrovertible facts that when the death penalty was an option juries were sometimes reluctant to deliver guilty verdicts in murder trials and went for guilty on less serious charges resulting in the accused doing short time or being freed to commit further crimes. Now that's what you call a paradox.