I do not oppose capital punishment per se. It is the only punishment appropriate in some cases. However, unless it becomes possible to be 100% sure that a given man is guilty of a capital crime, I oppose making him 100% dead. Too many innocent men go to prison every year.
For this reason I would reserve capital punishment to those cases in which the accused enters a plea of guilty, or cases in which guilt is obvious (e.g., a mass murder with multiple witnesses).
Why no on electrocution? While waiting for ventricular fibrillation to kick in they get to sizzle for a little bit. If they’ve murdered someone innocent, I don’t really see the problem.