Keep the death penalty.
People who think nothing of human life and remove it in such a cold manner still deserve to die. Thankfully, for this man, he was proven innocent in time. If you look at the cases of Jeff Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy, don't you think they deserved to suffer the death penalty? Terrible people who murdered innocents, young and old, to satisfy their sick craving for carnage.
Now, they were different, of course, in that they killed many, many more than just one person... and, as far as we know, their motives for killing were not in anyway related to this crime (as in the person who did it is some nutcase with a lust for blood). With that cleared up, however, our prisons are overflowing with inmates who are convicted killers and who have no further function in society (proven killers, as in the evidence was just so overwhelming it's not even funny). To manage them, we spend so much money (millions upon millions) to take care of them when really, if they serve no further purpose and have no regard for human life, there's no need for it.
The death penalty is the solution to that problem. If you kill someone, then I think you deserve to die rather than sit in a cell for years and years on end whilst we waste money to take care of such low-lives. This empties the prisons and puts money back in our pockets. Now, this man was wrongfully facing the death penalty, but mistakes happen. You can't remove the death penalty just because one person was found mistakenly charged and convicted. It happens, but everyday we catch more murderers than we falsely convict.
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