[traloid]

It is justice. Every murderer should be executed by the state IMO.

[aaron-santos]

Justice involves the victims not the state. The Kantian idea of justice should have died out centuries ago.

[beerandt]

Judicially sanctioned revenge killing as a civil remedy is an interesting thought exercise, though.

...if your argument is that the victim and not the State is entitled to justice.

[aaron-santos]

I'll leave it as a thought experiment in the same way that we ask, "How many people would eat meat if they had to do the killing?"

[beerandt]

Probably more than you're thinking, especially if the meat had just been convicted of killing a family member.