Is it though? That all depends on how much value you place on a life lived on death row, locked in a 6x6 cell for 23 hours a day, deprived of all your human rights. For me that life is absolutely pointless, I would rather die and not have to live through the boredum, depression, regret, humiliation, and fear of that life. I think that is more of a punishment than giving someone the easy way out where they won’t even experience the punishment. Also when, as a society, we start killing people for killing someone it’s a slippery slope to losing the civilised, human part of us. We’re always taught two wrongs don’t make a right