Honestly, for me, "Eye for an eye" is never Ok. You take in account the situation, but not the people. A person, in a feat of rage or in an unstable momment of their lives can commit vile acts, planned or not. To respond in the same manner, you're just being as (or more) vile yourself.
It's not a proper responde, simply because you'll never get a large group of people to agree to a middleground on this matter. Worst... people think that if it's "An Eye for an Eye", they should be the ones judging and carrying out the punishment... not only that, but, being a minor portion or not... accident do happen. If a cop kills someone in a legitimy accident, and the family demands this as "justice"... what's going to be? If they dont carry the punishment, because it was an accident, then, everybody will claim "accident". And down we go into the gray area of a logic lost in a crowd. But if they do carry out the punishment, then, people would be saying that "it's ok to kill a innocent for the greater justice everynow and then" and that's never ok with me.
also... from the article
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"I don't want to blind him for revenge," Bahrami said in her parents' Tehran apartment. "I'm doing this to prevent it from happening to someone else."
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That's what i would call class A bullshit. It's revenge.