I totally agree with Dimple.......................if the end result is a loss of life than there is no difference.....................the only thing that bothers me is what the person did or committ to get the punishment???.....................did the guilty have right to take someones life.???....how terrible was the crime???.......was it rape and murder???, was it a pedoplhile who raped and killed a lot of kids???...was it a warlord who comitted a mass genocide killing thousands??? etc etc of all the terible things we humans are capable of doing..........either of being mentally sick, anger,money, power and controll, lust ,revenge and other various reasons we cant comprehend..........Unless it happens to us personally than the whole concept changes. Now where do we keep these sick people....locked up??? costing the government a lot of money OR punishing them to die ................ for the crimes they did,,,,,............ PLaying god and ordering someone to die is wrong because the person who ordered the execution to the people who did it is a party of legal murderers................you can turn wood into charcoal but no one can turn charcoal back to wood....you can kill some one but you cant bring him back to life...................................what is bad?? living with the consious that you took a life.............or a quick death to end the mental trauma????? ..........I dont know the answer.