Pennsylvania's death statute is at death's door itself. There's a moratorium on death sentences until they can figure out how to apply it fairly and how so many people have been wrongfully convicted. Six people on Pennsylvania's death row have been exonerated, and some released, because of new evidence. Had there not been what critics call, "endless cycles of appeals," those innocent men would be dead at the hand of the state.
I like the idea of the death penalty, and I can truthfully say I believe some people deserve to die for their crimes. I cannot, however, support the state claiming a right to kill its own citizens in its name. No government should have power over the life and death of its people. History has shown such power has always been widely abused.