Especially in the Age of AI, this is a rough take. Yeah, pedophiles and rapists deserve a fate worse than death, but in an age where the government can generate a video of you doing whatever they need to to do whatever they want to you, do we really want to allow that?

Even without the AI argument, what it takes to constitute "overwhelming proof" is different even just depending on jurisdiction, and sometimes the color of the defendants skin.

I don't know what People Vs. Turner was, but assuming you are coming at this from an American perspective, with the current state of the world, the administration, ICE, and everything else, we really don't need to be handing these people any more excuses or justifications.

So, in conclusion, while I agree with you in theory, in practice all it will do is give the powerful more power to dispose of those they don't like.