legalized killing

This seems suddenly to be a world I don’t know or want to know. Do we really want to go down a path of allowing this kind of legalized killing of each other?

"In a representative government, state executions make every citizen a party to a legalized killing as punishment," he said in a statement.

It works in a campaign, but on a different level, many Americans have clearly not come to terms with legalized killing.

Legalized killing is a cruel and unusual procedure, so that the condemned, whether guilty or innocent, become miserable victims.