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I think life imprisonment and death are essentially the same punishment, with the caveat that you can release a wrongfully imprisoned man but you cannot un-execute someone.
Executions and vigilante justice are for failing and failed states where the odds of seeing justice though more civilized means are remote to nonexistent, often through their own capture of the system. If you have the power to do so, imprisonment is always preferable.
Exiling elites insead of executing them is literally a function of how the elites have maintained their power through the centuries.
Executing corrupt elites who operate above the law is entirely different than capital punishment as a tool of oppression against the working class.
The damage these people have done requires both their amputation from humanity and a clear message to everyone else in power.