God complex... maybe
Life and Death. Interconnected. We want to live life, but refuse to see death in it. Could be why people are so affected by ptsd.
The oldest written codes have punishment for murder. Usually death.
The drugs. Witnesses to death sentences don’t want to see the convicted murderer struggle to live, so drugs are used to put the subject under and then leathal drugs are injected to kill the murderer. Sensitivity. The murderer got better than the victim of the crime. What can be more cruel than waiting years for your sentence of death to be carried out...
Better a quick bullet to the head/guiotine and the short and violent resultant struggle for life. Just as was done to the victim.
But then somebody has to clean it up.....or the drug dead body cleared away.
So the bullet is way cheaper and quicker, and it offends everyone sense of civility because it is so brutal. Life’s a bitch and then you die...... suck it up.....get over it etc....
You see now death becomes more personal..... you see you can die.... so in the meantime live your life....
One way to think about a prison term for a murderer is that he is being punished. He is still alive, being fed 3 meals a day and gets a nice comfortable cot. Shelter and food. And then there is hope... to get out. Yep even though convicted, the murderer got away with murder...