"Vengeance is mine" says the Lord. How come all these other guys want to get in on the act?

I can imagine wanting to take my vengeance on someone who had injured someone I loved. But having that vengeance delegated to some hired killer in a prison and delayed for 10 or 15 or 20 years - I cannot envisage how would in any way make me feel better or help me recover.

I can even imagine myself into a state of mind in which, as a legislator I'd feel I had no alternative but to have someone executed. But that doesn't seem to be how it is either. I was looking at part of one of those Presidential debates, and saw how, when George Bush talked about having some killers executed he almost seemed to be giggling with glee. Jesus weeps!