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If he was currently on top of you, stranding you and you had a knife, sure.. that's self defense. But not in cold blood.

A moral society doesn't use death as a punishment. It cheapens the value of life.

We're going around in a circle here. I simply don't believe that confinement and rehabilitation are insufficient, and I think the costs of executing the wrong person are even more reason not to kill criminals.

You're making the argument that he's always going to escape, and that is by no means a given unless we're speaking narratively. Sure, a fictional character will escape if the plot demands it. I'd even go as far as to say seeing a fictional character get killed for being evil cam be cathartic since nobody is actually being hurt; but conversely I find the idea of Bruce Wayne, a fictional character sticking to their code and morals and sense of self to be also quite cathartic and pleasing. It's the reason he's a dark Knight and not just the Punisher.

Superman cares
Batman defends

It's the core of the modern take on the characters.