The woman conceived it, and let it grow inside her. IT is not yet alive, it is a foetus. It is no human, capable of thinking or feeling. If the foetus is not wanted by the mother then she has the right to kill it. A mother having a child she didn't wanted is not a nice situation, fot both. It's not evil.

But abortion is not the subject.

About death-penalty: The USA is always so big about freedom. The land of the free, both parties have a liberal economic point of view, everything is about freedom.
Now, the most painful thing about being in prison is the lack of freedom. It's something normal people can't even imagine, how hard it is not to be free.
Many prisoners with a lifelong sentence, would prefer a quick death above staying for decades in prison.