Here's the thing about killing these people….
(((They))) don't want to come forward (if they would like to) because they fear that exact thing happening to them. The crazy thing is that they do this shit in the first place because they see everyone as a threat to their existence.
Us killing them only reinforces that thinking in them.
It also turns us (if we kill them) into something similar to them.
Those who have lost loved ones, those who have been abused by them will have the hardest time in not seeking 'an eye for an eye'.
But if we are to break this cycle of tit-for-tat those of us who are brining these people to justice need to show mercy. Lifetime in jail, yes. But executing them, even though there are provisions for that in the military code, just perpetuates the cycle.
Because that experience, of being executed, is remembered and taken forward to the next life - ad infinitum.
For example, I have had a memory of a prior beheading triggered by watching Danton (about the French revolution) and a friend has related to me his own experience of a prior time being in front of a firing squad and offered a last cigarette. You can imagine how long that cigarette took to smoke! This lifetime he was a chronic smoker until he dealt with that prior incident.
So, killing someone, no matter how justified, is the old way of doing things.
The new way is to acknowledge what they have done, make it public and make sure they live their life out without any possibility of parole. With a big carrot available - give yourself over to rehabilitation. As that has to be done with their agreement, consent and active participation. Otherwise it won't work.
Something for all of you, and Q, to chew on.