It's mostly uncontroversial to say that all death is a non-positive thing. It's a bit more controversial to say that all death is a bad thing. But whichever of these you posit, if either, you eventually get to the conclusion that the death penalty is not a good thing. This said, there's a breakdown somewhere there, because there seems to be a lot of people that care about life and hate death, but then also think...well, actually the death penalty is okay for some.

Don't get me wrong, I reckon with my beliefs on the death penalty as well and have them internally questioned, but I also realize questioning them is the same as questioning the reasoning that led me there.

I believe we should abolish the death penalty, because it's tantamount to admitting, actually, some people can't get better, which feels icky to me.

Don't get me started on how the American prison system is designed to "prove" people can't get better.