I feel that the death sentence should remain.

Without capital punishment, how would we as a society explain to the families, the fathers,mothers,brothers,sisters,sons, daughters, of a woman who was raped,tortured and murdered, and chopped up into pieces, that punishment was meted out to the perpetrator, if he is still breathing and eating and sleeping in prison?

Yes. Met a few people who were guilty because they said so , themselves. But they walked because of corruption.