Retribution achieves nothing except continuing the circle of violence. The humane thing to do is recognizing the humanity even in supposed monsters. Let’s suppose that doesn’t matter and we would agree that certain crimes need to be punished with the most intense cruelty we can come up with: What if someone is wrongfully convicted? that happens all the time. You can’t undo killing someone.

Torture and death penalty are barbaric and have no place in democracy.