Death Penalty

I am against the death penalty.  I believe there are many other less harmful alternatives to help people who have committed crimes get back on track.  While many believe that for some specific cases, the death penalty is the only option, I feel that this method goes against my harm/care foundation-- which is the strongest of all five for me.  Murder, in any sense of the word, to me, is morally wrong.  Crimes deserve punishment depending on the severity of it, but no one deserves to die.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/opinion/what-will-finally-doom-the-death-penalty.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D&_r=0

This is an opinion article from the New York Times.  It gives a brief history of how the death penalty and the thoughts surrounding it have evolved over time to start, and then the author states his position against the death penalty.  He claims that the death penalty is yet another outdated, failed government program that denies people their human rights. I agree with this statement. While this method of punishment may have been effective in the past, it is becoming much less acceptable over time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/for_1.shtml

This is a short document stating the general reasons why people who are in favor of the death penalty think the way that they do.  It states that guilty people should be punished in accordance with the severity of their crime.  While I do agree with this, I believe there is no crime that should be punishable by death.  For people who commit crimes such as murder, life in prison should be the punishment.

-Is killing someone who did the same to someone else moral?
-For those in favor of the death penalty, which crimes should be punishable by death?