I've never thought about it like that before. You're right, and thats amazing. Orange man so bad he's saving the country
I don't agree that in a civilised society, we act like animals or worse, like criminals ourselves. It makes us stoop to their levels, makes us less than human and shows hypocrisy on massive levels. I have a big problem with countries like America having the death penalty, while also making murder illegal.
While I'm not religious, I don't believe we should put ourselves in the position of Gods, or Nature. We have no right to take another life, as much as that life has no right to take another.
That said, I also HUGELY disagree with solitary confinement, and find it is worse than capital punishment. To confine a living creature in a way like that is beyond the most evil act i can think of. Even those in Hell have company.
FWIW, those who commit murder, who have chosen to not live by the rules of man, should be exiled to live in nature, by the rules of nature. What happens after that, is between them and Gaia. If a 60 year kills his kids and is dropped in the wilderness, only to be eaten by bears, then that is the circle of life. We should never interfere or break that ring. Though i do believe in abortion, so feel free to disregard my mentalist view of the world.