Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephant he was Tracking to Kill for Ivory

One life was going to end - his or the elephant's. As the instigator, frankly, I'd rather it was his.

How so? Both involve a person supposedly deserving death as punishment for an immoral act. You have to admit it is rather hypocritical to condemn the prescribed death of people who do immoral deeds (i.e. the notion that people may deserve death as a punishment) but then applaud the deaths of people who do immoral deeds and say that they deserved it as a consequence.

Edit: Although this would hinge upon whether view the death penalty as wrong because they see it as immoral 'to kill' as a practice rather than 'to experience death' as a consequence, although one might ask from where their moral disagreement with the former stems if they see no problem with the latter or the 'result.'

It being an elephant in this case means we are talking about the moral implications of deserving the experience of death (which is where I believe the hypocrisy lies) rather than the moral implications of the act of carrying it out.