There's a lot of killing going on in Latin America. Generally, we think of Central and South America as becoming civilized and humane, but a surprising number of citizens of those nations are being executed.
Most decent persons regard execution as barbarous.
Resorting to execution is always evidence that a government is unable to cope and manage effectively. They are intellectually and morally deficient. Of course, execution also indicates that the government is extremist and uncivilized. Government probably shouldn't hurt its citizens or kill them. Around the World, the governments of most civilized nations like Russia, Japan, Canada, Uganda and Syria seldom, if ever, kill their own citizens.