When the state executes someone for a crime it&#x27;s generally not considered murder.<p>Vigilantism is considered a wide range of things in various cultures, but even in the US if a someone saw a driver drive back and forth over there kid and they pulled out a gun and shot the driver in rage then they would likely get off.<p>Doing the same thing in cold blood would be considered murder in the US, but we have a mostly functional court system.  Without that Vigilantism may preform similar functions as state sponsored executions.  Sure, it&#x27;s far from ideal, but so is cold blooded murder of a child.<p>PS: Actual death would not be a requierment, but a level of harm that causes people to avoid murder is.