Abuse of State power is the only offense I would endorse the death penalty for. There is hardly anything worse. An individual is fairly limited in how much har

Abuse of State power is the only offense I would endorse the death penalty for. There is hardly anything worse. An individual is fairly limited in how much harm they can do (unless they control a biggish corporation). A public official abusing the power of the Federal Government can blight the lives of millions. That said, people in control of corporations casn do enormous harm, and the go-to treatment of this malfeasance in the US is to fine holders of the stock at the time a conviction loses its final appeal, with no prosecution of company officers at all unless they defrauded stockholders. That is seriously messed up. All the executives of pint companies that poisoned millions for decades retired untouched.