Stalin/Mao/Hitler and other dictators frequently used mass executions on prisoners and political opponents without trial. People who support the death penalty and public executions are just as civilised as a despotic dictator. Death penalty supporters do not believe in human rights and civil liberties.
To support the death penalty is to support murder. The blood of the executed man is on all the hands of the people within society regardless if you played a role in the judicial process or execution of the man.
What if the man executed was innocent of all charges and he was not the person who carried out the alleged crimes?
Why should the state have the power to decide who lives and who dies?
Death penalty supporters are just as civilised as Stalin and Hitler, et. al.
