Eating ice cream is cool, falling in love is cool, death penalties are not.
The main problem with taking someone’s life is that it would be Hypercritical. If the state says do not murder and then uses murder as a punishment.
More importantly how do you differentiate? Should drunken car drivers be hung that kill a child in an accident or maybe only assisted suicide helpers. How about child killers? Or maybe just supporters of Omar Bin Laden.
If our solution to problems in society is to kill it (like Stalin or Hitler) Then how can we be a fair and just society.
