I can't see states like California repealing the death penalty, but I can't see these states coming close to use it again either.
In states like California or Pennsylvania, the death penalty became essentially an extremely expensive form of life in prison.
Pennsylvania is a very good example: there were literally hundreds of death warrants signed by all successive Governors since Dick Thornburgh. And yet, there were only three executions, all in 1990s (which was most prolific decade in executing inmates since 1977). All three were "volunteers", that waived their appeals and refused to ask for clemency.
The death penalty in the United States
is in decline. Severeal states abolished it, in others, as I said, death sentence is effectively life in prison.
Of course, I can't see it abolished entirely in near (and probably later) future. But executions number is going down even in very pro-death penalty states, especially in the South.
Unborn do not kill people.
Unborn is not a part of society.
This is probably the dumbest argument ever made on Atlas, at least since I'm here.