Do any Church Fathers comment on the merciful Nature of Stoning (Catholicism)?

The Mosaic Law's penal system (among others) includes the severe punishment of death by stoning. To be a little gruesome here: it takes a while to be killed in this way, and so there *would* theoretically be *sufficient time* (and *impetus*) for repentance and penitence before God—and consequently the punishment would take care of most or all of the *temporal* punishment due to the sin committed. One Scripture especially comes to mind: >**1 Corinthians 5:1-5 (DRB)** It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife. 2 And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed. 3 I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus; 5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Question -- Do any Church Fathers write along these lines (the merciful/practical, and not merely penal, nature of the death penalty)?