My Catholic side comes out with this.
No excuse — it’s honestly most spiritually damaging to the souls of the ones doing the firing.
God would disagree with you as he ordered millions to die at the hands of His people.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-many-did-the-israelites-ki-ORZ1AchkSeGONLVMtgkqaA
Some one had much the same thoughts — three guns, two wounds.
I recall for the post WW2 firing squads from a guy that did the job some, it was 3 or 5 guys with 03 Springfields and one of the guns would have a blank preloaded into it. The guys doing it were told — you might not ever get a live gun. And an officer with a 45 would put one into the former Nazi’s head soon after the squad fired.
Why Catholics always voted wrong till very recently
I was raised Catholic, drifted for decades, and later in life God sparked me to belief and desire to learn about and be grown by HIM. What I learned is His Word supersedes all denominations, because people created denominations (pride, thinking they know better than the word of God or the word needed their additions, most don’t teach full bible - only parts supporting their denominational agenda)
Jesus said live by the laws of the land you are in, our laws say if a person takes a life, their life may be required in justice and protection of society. Capital punishment is not done in hatred (a sin), but so that society is not burdened with release of likely repeat offender or housing for life a violent or unrepentant criminal.
Also how can you judge/say what would be most spiritually damaging to a person’s soul when maybe God assigned those people who carry out capital punishment to the role knowing they are spiritually strong enough to do it to protect society, AND that many of us would cower if we were tasked with doing it?
obviously God’s best is not for believers and unbelievers to live with constant threat of killers, thieves drug or other addicts and harmful people to prey on them routinely. Some facing death penalty do reconcile with God and see their death as amends for their crimes/sins, most I don’t think do and still profess innocence or unjust that they face death even if they took a life.
Most people incarcerated or not, some believers even, have not accepted conviction for their sins, by the Holy Spirit, and are still unwilling to have a change of heart and mind only God can do.
this man from the article shot a cop multiple times and burned the body. He acted on purpose. Hopefully he got right with God prior to execution.