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That is not how the law works. if the law worked based on how you would feel if you put yourself in the place of a person, you'd get "it would feel bad to be stolen from, but it would feel good to steal, therefore they are the same." If you could only place yourself in the place of the victim, no one would be innocent because it would feel bad, and thus they must be guilty. It's a ridiculous concept. What if I imagine myself as the father and I also imagine I don't care, should murder be legal?
So did the US army. Rape isn't punishable by death, for good reason. It's only added here as an appeal to emotion with no reflection on how it would impact legal process. Rape is very hard to prove, and also way more common than murder. Based on the average number of rape cases and the average length of a death penalty case you'd have half a million 20-year-long cases a year every year forever in the US alone.
Then when it comes to killing lots of people - obviously I'm not defending it, but lots of people kill lots of people. Tobacco manufacturers, car manufacturers, armies, secret services, the police, doctors when things go wrong - or even when things go right but the person can't be saved...
It's all well and good to look at one guy and say "this person should die," but the problem is the law has to be administered fairly and for everyone or there'll be no law, so when you look at 16,000 people per year every year, it looks very different .