Legalized Murder

Cal Coburn Brown was killed by lethal injection on September 10th, 2010. Brown had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young woman, and he was the last case of capital punishment in Washington state. Since then, the current governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, has suspended use of the death penalty in our state.
I hesitate to say this, but sometimes people simply need to die for things that they have done. I don't say that they deserve to die, because I don't know if that is accurate, and rather have a feeling that it isn't. They just need to die in order to provide some semblance of justice and prevent repeat crimes by these individuals. The point of this post isn't to prove the point that capital punishment is in fact necessary, but I needed to introduce it with that background.
Sometimes, we as citizens become detached from events, and even try to make things out as different than they actually are. We pretend that our politicians aren't corrupt (which is a very difficult mindset to keep), we pretend that violent crime isn't a common occurrence, we pretend that we don't have huge amounts of adults and children living on the streets, we pretend that we don't live lives of excess and selfishness. The list could go on and on, but one of the biggest things we do is pretend that our government doesn't kill people, or at least minimize what that means. We use the term "capital punishment" instead of "legalized murder". We use operations such as lethal injections to make it look like a medical procedure, so we don't have to see the blood and pain that usually accompany death. Right now the only two available options for execution in my state are lethal injection and hanging, and hanging is only available by special request.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It is my opinion that the only way that our murders can be justified is if we as a nation see them for what they really are. It is truly disgusting to have our sensibilities offended by this while still approving these methods. Talking about death is considered to be in bad taste, yet we sit back and do nothing while sterile and "humane" procedures of killing people happen in our approved government. As Victor Hugo says in Les Miserables, "We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes." The problem is that we don't see guillotines; we see vaccinations.
This willful ignorance, this brutality of trying to be merciful is truly revolting. Take a side. This issue is too important to ignore. Talk about it. Do something.