i should've written more, i think the more evil it is the more threatening its agents are and that changes the calculation of whether holding them is more trouble, whether you can trust their guards etc.

Jeanine wasn't a threat once the coup was rebuffed but if she was dead she'd be dead instead of getting out (and i know they don't have capital punishment in Bolivia which is admirable, but i think executing a coup leader is acceptable). a more hypothetical example might be that holding them drives a movement for their release while execution has a sharper spike but much less capacity to build anything.

i prefer the Puyi treatment, and i certainly don't think a bourgeois state is ever legitimate in killing anyone, but i think it's fine if high-ranking officials who do premeditated white collar crimes get the wall.