His point is that that's a good thing, especially when the violence is (more or less) constrained by due process, and expectation of equality before the law, fu

His point is that that's a good thing, especially when the violence is (more or less) constrained by due process, and expectation of equality before the law, further limited by prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishments, and unlikely to result in death in any but the most extreme cases, and even then, not it every state.