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I think there are some situations where the good of society transcends the good of the individual, and the death penalty is one of them. When a person commits a heinous crime, society benefits by ridding itself of that individual, as you would by ridding yourself of a tumor, or a cockroach in your kitchen, or a rabid skunk on your front porch.

I agree that the appeal process needs revision, especially in these days of omnipresent video cameras, DNA testing, etc. where culpability can be utterly beyond dispute, in which case it's ridiculous to drag it out for 10-15 years. By the time the person is executed, nobody may even remember the crime any more. There need to be certain conditions where "automatic appeal" is not granted. Of course, those conditions would have to be meticulously codified, but still....