They sorta got mashed up with Frank and Penguin and Thorbjorn and Carlita et al. So I went back and reread the first few. It seems this post covers them. So I will just respond to this one. I'll have to break it up because my phone gets difficult on long posts.
Hopefully I will also respond to a post from
@suncowiam .
I disagree that the perp is paying any debt or amends by being killed.
If I burn down your house, taking mine and giving it to you is paying the debt. But there is no amends for the destruction of a life. It is just not the same. It's just getting some irrational emotional satisfaction. Very understandable, given human psychology. But the only way it would be paying a debt is if it brought the victim back. Since that is impossible, talking of paying debts or making amends is irrational. It is attempting to make an irrational, if understandable, emotional feeling seem rational.
Tom
Like I said, I must break up this reply.