What are your views on the death penalty?

i was reading the Star Tribune this morning and i saw a guy in South Dakota was gonna be put to death by lethal injection. the first in 60 years. this man 25 and 2 friends beat, totured and mutilated the victim. made him drink acid, had him in a freezing river, beat him, stabbed him. i believe near spearfish SD. so my question is knowing a little of what he had done to an innocent victim. do you think he should die or spend life in prison? the man wants to die, was suppose to last august but GOV. Mike rounds postponed it due to legal reasons. he is suppose to die this week. just curious on your views.