"Montblack" wrote:
I see no difference between hitting the beaches at Normandy and
hitting the switch for the electric chair - both are necessary in
combating ...."evil-doers".

Are you sure its been generally agreed that it is okay to execute
prisoners-of-war? That's seems to be the moral equation you are accidently
implying. Wouldn't executing soldiers who surrender make surrender much
less common and battles cost many more lives, among other causal affects?

In other words, for the purposes of establishing moral code, one may
classify two sets (of probably many) of environments involved both for war
and for crime:

War: Active combat and post-surrender.
Crime: Active criminal activity and post-arrest.

An additional problem is that not all active criminal activity warrants
execution. Unless you don't mind being executed for minor traffic
violations, among other often broken laws.