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It is possible to be in favor of the death penalty and still support the Innocence Project and the Innocence Protection Act of 2001. Of course, experience with such civil liberties causes may change one's views of the death penaly as it is applied, in fact.
Hopefully, someday there will be legislation and procedures in effect that reduce considerably the number of people, actually innocent, who get actually convicted and even actually executed for something they didn't do.
Few of us have personal experience of the profound sense of injustice of wrongful accusation. Some here do. This sense, no doubt, increases with wrongful conviction, particularly when the sentence is either life in prison, or worse, death. As some know, and even some of us could experience: conviction is not proof of guilt. Everyone wrongly convicted deserves the empathy and help of others who are free and able.
With or without the death penalty, emancipation of the actually innocent but wrongly convicted should be as important an objective of a civilized society as conviction and punishment of the guilty.
When there is irrefutable scientific proof of actual innocence, and the wrongly convicted is scheduled to be irrevocably executed pursuant to death penalty statutes intended for the actually guilty, there is a greater sense of urgency and priority to help with the limited resources available for post-conviction review.
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