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This is popular. Just look at the celebrations when bin laden got killed. Or how people celebrate executions of heionous criminals. Sure, they say they don't like "murder", but they think like: "he should get the death penalty", which is practically the same thought, but worded in a more... "legal" phrasing.
I mean maybe not "majority", but there's a lot of people that are okay with death penalty. Even the liberals opposing death penalty sometimes think that a mass shooter should get executed, like that white supremacist dude that murdered black people in a church (not gonna name the shithead), biden was doing pardons when he was leaving office and that guy was one of the ones that he did not commute the death sentence of. So he basically implied that he approved of the racist murder getting executed. A president of the US implicitly approved of a killing (a good decision, btw), I mean... that's as mainstream as it can get.
Death to the Charleston Church shooter. Lolol (To mods: this is not "violence" since dude is on death row, I'm just wishing for it to be faster LOL)
TLDR: "Murder" bad, "Executions" okay, is basically the sentinment of some people.
People online just want to sound virtuous and benevolent when it is convenient. Sure they can sometimes scream about how "The government gets to kill you and that's bad!" and whatever. We don't know how many of them actually like that idea but I do assume a lot do, they just don't outright say it because they feel they have online PR to care for.