﻿If it be right for law to kill few, it is right for war to kill many; one is as right as the other; and both—are wrong. One shall “BE” as long as the other and there is no use in the endeavors to end one without disturbing its counterpart; for they draw sustenance from one another. 
“Executions” in war and peace puts law into individual hands… 
“But,” you say, “war kills the innocent.”— That is not so—war kills only the quilty: Each so killed by war were a party to killing by law—and, if the law holds, each new killing justifies the next. It’s a bloody trail we are following and our coup de grace is just around the corner. 
So far, not a state has risen that wasn’t an expert in killing. 
Revenge, retribution and retaliation all play their parts and those each, in themselves, are acts of war. 
Noble heroes!