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If you truly believe that all humans are equal then you must also believe that it is impossible for one to stand in judgment of another. I believe that killing is wrong because it is one human standing in judgement of another. Society has a duty to protect its members, but judgement and the concept of "punishment" is something that should be left to God.
If a Christian kills an atheist child, the child goes to hell and the Christian can just "repent" and go to heaven.
God is not just.
Also, by this logic, it literally doesn't matter to the Christian whether he is executed or not because he's going to heaven anyway, because God doesn't actually give a shit whether you're good or evil, just whether you think he's actually God. So why should the rest of us hellbound mortals have to deal with him for the rest of his natural life?