Thank you for your reasoned response.
If you want to kill them, consider Tucker39’s post. I also see animals humanely killed every day; but I can’t think of a human being, created in the image of God, as simply an ‘animal’.
I guess you could say that I am ‘pro-Life’; and this was a good opportunity to express a view.
-JT
Not to find fault with your reasoning, you are entitled, personally, to look upon criminals and their just punishment in a more compassionate,lenient way simply as a matter of opinion and not practice. But as a Christian as your source for repercussions for acts of criminality is the Bible it would seem contradictory for the Bible to condone capital punishment yet consider the sinner as that of not being made in His image. In other words, until when you commit a crime deserved of capital punishment you would be entitled to the privilege of being made in God’s image and that not of an animal. But once you act like an animal, by killing, so, too, will you reap that of being an animal, to lose your privilege of that of being made in God’s image and be relegated to that of an animal, deserved of death for death.