Beags....it should be a bit off-putting when the state gives some one the chop or else we might grow too fond of it!
One recall our nation was founded upon good Christian values including something very akin to the Muslim belief of "An eye for an eye". America being the land of compromise and mixing of ethnic/cultural/social attributes of many races/creeds/religions.....we're just trying to do what most of the citizens see as being the right thing to do. We have elected to punish killers (in most states anyway).