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I think you’re missing the point if people could be always 100% sure they were guilty and then have the power to kill them like that, more people would be up for it.
But the fact guilt is rarely 100%, it would be the government doing the killing and the cost of it that’s a big argument against it. That’s ignoring the moral facts or ignoring the the argument whether being dead is even that much of a punishment? They won’t know they’re dead, you could argue it’s an easy way out.
Also the point the OP was making is what gives the people who are bad enough to be sharing a high security prison the moral high ground?
Is indeed the point I was making , Charles Bronson is an evil violent man but never mind that let him strangle these sex beasts , he is a liver anyway and we can all cheer him from our cosy homes
Whilst the following week an armed robber kicks feck out of someone serving time for fraud and the silence is golden
You are after vengeance not justice. Locking them away and ensuring they have a long life so they can think of their crimes and how they are viewed will torture their soul.
We all act on impulse and on occassions regret it. These people are no different except their impulses are far more extreme. They will know and appreciate how abhorrent their crimes are and eventually any psychological barrier they have created will come crashing down.
Let them live and suffer their crime. Their only release will be death. should we grant them that? Is that more merciful for a tortured soul