Too Dei Too

State imposition of the death penalty is a horrible thing, but not the most horrible of things.
Laying down societies arms against those individuals whose aim is to destroy society (or, at least, to destroy members of society) fails to render the body of a man to the alter of Justice, and is worse than signifying, expressing, imposing, measuring, and effectuating the ultimate punishment a society can make in a time of war; death. To take the life of a murderer is protecting the public as a whole from the civil war that is created through vengeful blood feuds, and the inherent injustice in allowing one member of society to play god with the whole. God cannot be imitated or else he is merely a god, and a man who imitates God so such a degree ceases to be a man. While a man in war can kill for the glory of God, a man at war with himself kills for the glory of his rebellion. He is transformed through this ultimate action of the will, rebellion against society and Morals and Justice and, in the process, kills himself. Therefore, when the state implements a system of justice that allows for the imposition of the death penalty the state is not killing the man, but removing a suicidal corpse from the only living thing this rebellious child of God has left; a soul. One hopes that the living soul imitates the one who pardons all living souls, whether their bodies are sentenced to life or death, ultimate vengeance belongs to the Judge not of this world.