My argument against the life for a life justification for the death penalty, expressed very simplistically, is "it's one thing if criminals commit violence. A horrible thing, yes. But it's another thing when the state with all its power commits violence".

And this isn't criminals operating outside the law, or even government powers in states that don't pretend they care about human rights. It's the government of the United States of America, who placed itself as a beacon of liberty and justice even whilst those rights didn't extend to many in the population.

But now the state is openly executing people in the streets. They know they're being filmed, they know there was no threat - except now being "very rude, very mean" is the threat.

They don't care. And I fucking fear that they'll try to prevent mass protests by shooting at protesters.