My questions are this for those who support unconditionally banning the death penalty: Why do you support banning the death penalty? Do you not think a single crime is so bad someone deserves to die for committing it?
If someone is falsely convicted of a crime and is sentenced to life in prison, if we find out 10 years later that they were innocent, they can be freed and given financial compsensation.
If someone is falsely convicted of a crime and sentenced to death, and we find out 10 years later that they were innocent... they're dead, so we can't give them compensation.
Basically, we can't undo an execution. The risk of execution an innocent person is always going to be too high. Even if 1 person out of 1,000,000 is wrongfully executed, that's still too high.
My question: what would your ideal afterlife system look like?