There's a line, for me personally. When you get to the worst of the worst? No. Don't waste resources keeping them locked up for years. Don't give them comforts and care while they're locked up waiting to get a definitive sentence.

You take them out back, and you fucking old yeller them.

And not even that. I want you to imagine this. You've a wife/husband. You've kids. Hell, even just a friend or family. Some person breaks into their home, does some measure of horrible shit to them, and then kills them.

Ask yourself. Would you stand for it? You, personally. Would you let that stand?

I wouldn't. I'd take it on myself to kill them. No other person, no judge or executioner. I wouldn't give a shit at that point. Somebody takes everything away from me like that, with no thought or remorse over it? Unacceptable. Fuck other people dirtying their hands. I'd do it myself.

Sad truth is, some people cannot be fixed. And those that can't? Hit the off switch.

It's never justified. If we captured Hitler instead of finding his corpse, we shouldn't have even killed him.

yeah im torn tbh. if you commit murder, rape, torture etc etc (basically severe inhumane acts) i see no problem in killing them. people like that aren't able to live in society and why keep them locked up all their lives, imo being locked up for 50+ years is worse than death.

These ideas that we "become" killers when we kill them is so bloody facile. We kill people every day, in foreign lands with government-sanctioned weaponry. Intentions matter, and the executioner who takes the life of a murderer will never be as immoral as the murderer himself.

That said, only terrorists should be subject to the death penalty. Not as a form of punishment, but as a way of simply removing undesirable, foreign combatants.

Killing is bad, yes.

But some exceptions could be made...

Talk shit get hit

I only support its use on complete psychopaths such as Adam Lanza. Basically, only use it on mass murderers.

Not as punishment, but as a solution to a problem.

This.

I can't believe how many wimps there are in this thread. "hurrr if you kill and killer ur just as bad LOL"

Removing someone who is a danger to society is the opposite of bad and certainly not immoral. I'd execute murderers myself if I could, ridding the earth of the filth that is the worst in our species would be an honor.

You're absolutely right. You're just sinking to their level through execution.

edit: Well, as far as principles go, an eye for an eye isn't the highest moral path. Yet, one can justify the death penalty by various sort of explanations, and the thing is they're not exactly wrong. It's a complicated question, in which the solution really varies on a case by case basis.