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Lol, it's citizens would kill each other if they didn't, the very concept of government is rooted in the first principle of a Monopoly on violence, the word "should" implies a set of rules above the enforcer they are compelled to listen to, governance itself requires the ability to restrict violence from others you can't be the first at that without violence itself, a "citizen" is just someone useful enough to let live if that equation changes they will use violence. This is fundamental.
I live in a country without the death penalty and believe it or not, we aren't all murdering each other.
So you are saying that because murder happens the state should also get to do it?
The goal is to prevent wrongful executions and the solution is remarkably simple, stop executing people entirely. Nothing else has to change and we save lives.