Or we could try to be more civilized.

It’s easy for someone who isn’t a victim of a capital or war crime to say, that the death penalty should be ostracized.

That makes my respect for Robert Badinter even greater:

His father was captured in the 1943 Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup and deported with other Jews to the Sobibor extermination camp, where he was murdered shortly thereafter. … Robert Badinter (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ badɛ̃tɛʁ]; 30 March 1928 – 9 February 2024) was a French lawyer, politician, and author who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981.