Motto of Fabian Socialists like George Bernard Shaw.
Do you live in the south/southwest?
“Some people just need killing” was/is a common phrase used by country people like my relatives when I was a kid-and the people referred to were those who had committed murder-just a variation of an eye for an eye-and my family members are not socialists-Fabian or otherwise.
Shaw and his ilk felt that people in general should be brought to account to justify their value to society as a whole and demonstrate why they should be permitted to continue living.
That contrasts sharply with those who have brutally taken the lives of innocents and who have gone out of their way to demonstrate why they shouldn't.
Frankly, if it were up to me, the death penalty would be on the table for any crime in which the victim would have been justified resisting with deadly force. I'm not saying it should be applied in all cases, but it should be there as an option. In such crimes, it is the criminal who openly declared that their own life meant less to them than the act of victimizing their fellow human.