if I were to give a final answer I would say, I am for the death penalty in poor countries, such as ours and worse, because of the heavy costs and our inability to properly handle these cases. I am against death penalty and for life in prison in advanced countries
and I would like to add the followign to the argument
most capital offenders are victims themselves of something that happened to them in their early life, or somewhere along the line, or the way they were raised. and there was a study done on it (forgot the source) these people suffer from psycological problems and stuff and it was not their fault, even hitler if you ook at his history, his father used to beat him, and ridicule him and tell him he is ashamed of him and that he will never be anything :P anyway, if some countries have the ability to help change some of these people, maybe get them to feel regret, and maybe be productive(write a book or a computer game, whatever) I'd support it...