With sufficient proof, death is appropriate penalty for crimes such as treason. Enjoying its execution can be harmful to your soul, but refusal to pull the trigger is also dangerous, as the Uighers and Tibetans can show us. Don't forget what they had been and still are planning for us and our children, and the evidence of appalling numbers of innocents that quickly fell to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many others. There is a time for everything, including a time to kill.