Odelay42 , 7 months ago

The human brain has a lot of cognitive biases that we have collectively decided to legislate against.

This is one of the easiest to move on from. It takes significantly more effort to justify and carry out judicial murder than it does to ban it.

We banned dueling to the death over honor centuries ago, and that’s a very similar cognitive bias. Arguably a lot less impactful on society at large too, since a duel requires 2 willing participants and by definition has no collateral consequences, but it was still deemed wrong ages ago. There is no clear argument killing someone for their alleged crimes.