Studies have shown that every execution of a convicted murderer deters 156 murderers. There is a difference between chastisement and justice. Love does not automatically dissolve wrong-doing. Love may be geared toward the greater good the people that will not be victimized by the perpetrator in the future. Two wrongs don t make a right.
Crime demands punishment at all levels.
What God calls right we must not call wrong. And again, it is retributive, not corrective. Our efforts should be on salvation, not condemnation. There is not proof that more time will cause man to be saved. To kill a person was tantamount to killing God in effigy.