It depends if the judgement is democratic and fair.

My honest view is that some people need to be free, some in a cage and some dead.

Few convicted murders would choose execution to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, but why not give them the choice?

Thanks Ari. This would make a great human rights discussion topic, perhaps loosely comparable to the right to die in the terminally ill patients.  Whereas understandably in the latter case, some societies have come to acceptable terms to deal with it,  it will probably be more challenging to do the same with the right to die in  perfectly healthy convicts, many in their prime of their lives, both individually and collectively as a society. 

You are all missing the point.

Some people just live to make life for others difficult. Have you ever considered what Europe would be like if there was no WWII. What HUMANITY achieved when those who killed so many innocent people were left alone to carry out their action???????????? How could you be proud of yourselves letting them live????

Is it proper just for the sake of a few other people's right life become difficult for decent ones?

amirkabear4u jan, you got 65% saying no. What's your beef? Still want to kill? Just kidding!

I don't want you to be part of "the judgement is democratic and fair."

"I Want to Live." (wikipedia, movie clip). I watched this movie many years ago in Iran before 1979. It must have been in Cinema Shahr Gheseh, but I may be wrong. The tille in Farsi was:

می خواهم زنده بمانم

The movie's message just bothered me, but I used to believe in capital punishment under the ridiculous disguise of a democratic and fair court. Until in mid 1990s I met a man by the name Hossein Bagher-zadeh who explained it to me in one evening at tea table in a simple sentence that even a four-year-old could understand. And, the rest is history (at least for me), as they say.

Here is one blog Hossein khan posted, in fact, just a few days ago. I share it for you.

در مخالفت با حکم اعدام مه‌آفرید امیرخسروی