Tbf most of the criticism towards the death penalty comes from all the cases where after the person was executed later evidence exonerated them so basically as a country we lynched an innocent person like a retarded mob, combine this with how often the alphabets deliberately withhold evidence to frame the innocent and protect the guilty, plus all the corrupt courts and retarded juries, and nobody in their right mind should be trusting our government to decide who is guilty plus also having the power to execute them, like yeah the alternative is to babysit evil mofos for life on the taxpayers dime but again absolutely nobody should be trusting any level of our government to decide who gets executed

But other than that yeah humans instinctively desire an omnipotent and infallible authority figure to tell them what to do is and what is truth, sheeple gonna sheep