[Romantic Old Bird]

No, definitely not. We don't have the right to take this action.

Firstly, we can never be really sure of circumstances.

Secondly, we are teaching exactly who a lesson? Crimes of passion are spontaneous and directed at someone specific.

Murder by order is carried out by utterly ruthless people who are unlikely to be deterred by any threat of reciprocal death.

Others are driven to kill by fear and desperation - again unlikely to be deterred.

There is absolutely no evidence that the death penalty reduces unlawful killings.

Lastly, if someone did carry out a horrendous crime, I think a life-long incarceration is a far greater punishment than a few weeks or fear and then oblivion.