Against it in all cases.
Death can't be undone when someone turns out to be innocent. Also giving the state the right to take anyone's life opens a whole can of wirms. It's stooping to the same level as the ones they convict. We tell society it's wrong to kill by killing someone.
Ultimately the state's obligation is to keep violent offenders off the street. And that can be as easily done by locking them up as by killing them.
Death can't be undone when someone turns out to be innocent. Also giving the state the right to take anyone's life opens a whole can of wirms. It's stooping to the same level as the ones they convict. We tell society it's wrong to kill by killing someone.
Ultimately the state's obligation is to keep violent offenders off the street. And that can be as easily done by locking them up as by killing them.