I'm opposed to the death penalty for a number of reasons, one is as stated in the article: the discrepancies in our criminal justice system make it so that black folks are disproportionately executed.

Secondly, this subtlety shows how much power prosecutors have in our criminal justice system. In the past few years many prosecutors have sought out the death penalty knowing full well that the DOJ put a moratorium on executions -- one has to wonder how many prosecutors would continue forward if an execution was guaranteed to occur.