Yes, it was historically too. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet used this argument to be against the beheading of the French king while a

Yes, it was historically too. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet used this argument to be against the beheading of the French king while also being for imprisonment for life. This position made him unpopular with both the royalist and the revolutionaries and it might be responsible for his untimely death at the hands of the revolutionary government.