According to the laws of his time, Macbeth should indeed be killed for murdering the king. The crime of killing a king is called regicide, and was long thought to be one of the most traitorous and blasphemous crimes that one can commit. For obvious reasons, it is an act of treason to kill one's king: if one is attempting to overthrow one's sovereign, one is materially damaging one's country, and this is traitorous. However, regicide was also considered blasphemy (meaning: lacking respect for God or something holy) because they believed that kings were ordained by God, that kings were chosen by God to be rulers. Thus, to kill a king was to sin against God as well as commit a crime against one's country. According to these laws, then, Macbeth ought to die for his crime.
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