Then the issue becomes about whether justice and vengeance are in some sense the same thing and what justice really is. It's not impossible for what a victim or their family wants to be the just answer. I'm not going to argue about what's just in this situation, because I don't know the answer myself, but it's up to debate. My main objection to the death penalty is that it leaves no room for the innocent to be found innocent later. Whether it's a just punishment for someone who actually IS guilty of a heinous crime... well, I can't deny that there's a part of me that thinks the idiot whose execution got botched in Oklahoma deserved to die painfully for what he did.Because as soon as it becomes concrete, it becomes about vengeance, not justice.
do you want to live in a country that gives them what they want?