>>511215761 (OP)have you been caught in the act red-handed (in such a way that it cannot be denied anymore) and all sense of justice tells the witnesses that you knew you did something horribly wrong?
in that case, yeah. why waste all that time and effort on keeping you alive for the next decades in some prison cell, with the risk that you escape at some point.
just chop the head off and be done with it so you can stop having to waste time on it.
in modern western society I would oppose it though because it's too fucking corrupt and politicians would just start executing people who have legitimate grievances against them.
we already have the first states that are trying to ban AfD party members from holding any public position, even just as a regular desk clerk. if they could kill them all and feel that they can get away with it, they would.