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This is what my post was going to be:
I don't believe in the death penalty
Making sure that the political environment for Fascism doesn't exist is more preferable. Support for international institutions, stable democratic entities, representative government.
As a historian in training, I have a very specific idea of what Fascism is; but many other people also have their own ideas of what constitutes Fascism. Many Marxist-Leninist Cold Warriors considered anything beyond what is considered centre-right in the West to be 'Fascism.' For Stalinists, western liberals were as good as Fascist-enablers. Then you have far-right Freepers who carry the revisionist erroneous claim that Fascism is a leftist ideology.
Since Fascists are to be put to death (referring to the preference expressed in the OP), then a definition of it needs to be agreed upon. But then who kills the Fascists? A lynch-mob, a kangaroo court, or the apparatus of state. Most would think that the lynch-mob or the kangaroo court would lack judicial credentials. That leaves the carrying out of the death penalty to the state, and I can't say I would trust a state to have that power. It needs to be considered that a state could simply refer to anyone as 'Fascist' in order for people to be put to death for political expediency or perhaps at the behest of an overzealous prosecutor.
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