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Many of us believe that killing is never justice, whether it's committed by the state or not.

> To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque.

And how would killing again unstab those 5 and bring them back from the dead?

How would caging the murderers like animals for the next fifty years unstab those 5 and bring them back from the dead? I don't see how yours is a relevant objection.

Not killing a killer would be miscarriage of revenge, not a miscarriage of justice.

Punitive justice is petty.