Does Hester Prynne Deserve His Punishment

In a society there are punishment for crimes some more extreme than others.
In the scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester Prynne, a thought to be widow, is impregnated by a mystery man. Sins are crimes in this time era and consequences are harsh and being pregnant with someone beside your husband is a big sin. Hester Prynne is given mercy since her husband is declared dead by the town. Hester’s lover roams the town yet to have a face and it raises the question should he be punished? My answer would be yes for the reason of taking blame for what you have done.
As harsh as it may seems now a days back then i know more than half the population would agree this is a sin worth death. “ this woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to

die, is there no law for it?” exclaimed a angered woman. Already upset that she knows one of the two sinners shall live for a horrible crime she would be twice as angry if both lived. In order to keep them happy and people in order to prevent more anarchy the father must die.
Although a firm believer of going against the death penalty Anna Quindlen states “when a man is accused of throwing a child from a high-rise terrace, my emotional response is that he should be given the opportunity to see how endless the seconds are from the thirty-first story to the ground”(Execution Anna Quindlen).Anna claims she would run the death penalty if she were passionate enough and even make the sufferer have a worse fate than the one he had killed.
In the puritan era everything was about god and how passionate they are about him. Their passion help kill multiple people without question and i don’t think hester’s lover will be no different.
As broken as it seems i know and accept that the unknown lover shall suffer death in a painful way for sinning. Is this the right thing well maybe, but god did say murder was a sin so they will suffer in their after life if god deems it fit for the crie.