Sorry, but I believe that's utter nonsense. In an organized society with shared values and ideals, we expect the central government to react immediately, and violently if necessary, to outside stimuli that threatens the goals, beliefs, and way of life of the whole.

The individual citizen can not live in peace, nor have peace of mind, unless he believes that the government will protect him. Both by verbal and diplomatic threat to the outside world, and/or the potential of overt violence in the defense of the country.

And, don't get caught up on semantics. Life without the possibility of parole, is effectually the same as the death penalty. This is the ultimate penalty for crimes against the whole of society, and there are those that perpetrate crimes against that whole, that deserve the ultimate punishment.

Treason would be one crime that would deserve the ultimate punishment, the actions of terrorists against the innocent citizens of the country would be another.

You can have the liberal thoughts that you espouse here in these forums, only because you live within a safe federal framework, that alleviates you having to defend yourself on a daily basis from armed groups of thugs willing to take what you love and have away from you.

If you were afraid for your life, to walk out your front door, you'd be screaming at the top of your lungs, for your government to protect you by any means available to them, including killing those that threaten the people that you love, and your right to live a peaceful life without fear.