Because an individual person is different from a nation state.

Violence in the myth logic of states is something i as a subject surrender to the state, so that whatever the state as representative of the people decides can be accomplished, so even just from that very classic liberal perspective there should be oversight and curtailments over the use of violence by the state. Nominally courts fill this role but even there it’s not hard to find a good argument that a justice system should never be allowed to kill, or make any irreversible decision.

Now I don’t really believe in the Mythos of nation states very much. I do however belive that powerful people within nation states governments as well as surrounding them can be quite bad for the majority of humanity.

Simpler and probably commo selfish reasoning here on lemmy : "I can see myself on death row but not as Luigis target. "

Luigi rules, death penalty is stupid.