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From a purely logical POV, killing (or imprisoning) an evil person can make a situation worse if they are replaced by an even more evil person. This goes back to Kant's analysis of hypothetical statements ( The Critique of Pure Reason, "If perfect justice exists"). Framing the killing as an act of justice implicitly hypothesizes that evil is unique, rather than a systematic result of the underlying condition.