Hogwash indeed.
You’d think different if someone you loved was looking at the death penalty ... wrongfully. There is no coming back from an execution. Period. So it’s OK to kill the innocent to do what .. man up? “Well, we killed Bob wrgonfull but by gum at least we are men”?
Wrong. No. Absolutely not.
Leave that to Saudi Arabia.
There's no recovering the decades lost to false imprisonment either. Does that mean we shouldn't sentence anyone to prison?
So it’s OK to kill the innocent ...
We don't kill the innocent.