State killing depends on layered disengagement mechanisms working in combination

Evidence

A constellation of factors is necessary to enable a state to execute a convicted inmate. Scriptural and societal justifications provide moral support. Fractionating the killing into small parts means that no one person is the sole executioner. Viewing inmates as dehumanized public threats weakens qualms about putting them to death. Tight compartmentalization of the job keeps it from intruding on the home and social lives of prison personnel. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2036

Categorization

• XREF: This compressive list of disengagement factors maps directly onto how ordinary citizens rationalize punitive immigration/Islamophobic policy — justification, euphemism, dehumanization, compartmentalization.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2036