>>The death penalty
>
>From a legal standpoint, I now oppose the death penalty because of the possibility of executing an innocent individual Judges and juries are not perfect, they are capable of making mistakes. So life in prison (where it truly means life, no option for parole) is sufficient. If the wrong person was convicted, he/she can be released, the state can make restitution, etc.
>
>But - if someone indeed committed first-degree pre-meditated murder and is convicted in this country - and if they truly were guilty - as far as I'm concerned they are monsters and have surrendered their right of protection. Just drop them in shark-infested waters.

Did you hear about Thomas Quick from Sweden, who later changed his name into Sture Ragnar Bergwall? He confessed 30 murders, and were convicted for all of them. Later they discovered that he was insane at the time he confessed theses murders, and was later found to be innocent and is now a free man. In USA he probably would have been sentenced to death, and killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Bergwall