Comments on: Whatever happened to rotting in hell? http://www.ithinkthereforeirant.com/2009/08/24/whatever-happened-to-rotting-in-hell/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.ithinkthereforeirant.com/2009/08/24/whatever-happened-to-rotting-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-836 admin Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:10 +0000 http://www.ithinkthereforeirant.com/2009/08/24/whatever-happened-to-rotting-in-hell/#comment-836 The guy in question was a convicted mass murderer and terrorist. After he was convicted, he wasn't even proclaiming his innocence. A bullet between the eyes is pretty cheap. There needs to be a different standard of punishment for terrorism - death. While I understand that you are concerned about martyrdom, is it better to have the convicted terrorist return to his country and treated like a war hero? I think that the line of potential terrorists in Libya just got pretty long. Every disenfranchised teen in Libya just figured out how to be a hero. The guy in question was a convicted mass murderer and terrorist. After he was convicted, he wasn’t even proclaiming his innocence. A bullet between the eyes is pretty cheap. There needs to be a different standard of punishment for terrorism – death. While I understand that you are concerned about martyrdom, is it better to have the convicted terrorist return to his country and treated like a war hero? I think that the line of potential terrorists in Libya just got pretty long. Every disenfranchised teen in Libya just figured out how to be a hero.

]]> By: Ranter http://www.ithinkthereforeirant.com/2009/08/24/whatever-happened-to-rotting-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Ranter Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:59:41 +0000 http://www.ithinkthereforeirant.com/2009/08/24/whatever-happened-to-rotting-in-hell/#comment-834 The problem with the death penalty in its current form is: 1) it's much more expensive than incarceration for life, 2) it puts the criminal out of his misery immediately, instead of making him regret it for the rest of his long life, and 3) it provides martyrdom for the victim and gives relatives and friends an opportunity to honor the criminal. A much better sentence for serious capital crimes is a lifetime sentence of hard labor, and a meager existence with only bread and water and no TV or other luxuries afforded inmates these days. We want the criminals to wake up every morning and rue the day they decided to take another person's life. The problem with the death penalty in its current form is: 1) it’s much more expensive than incarceration for life, 2) it puts the criminal out of his misery immediately, instead of making him regret it for the rest of his long life, and 3) it provides martyrdom for the victim and gives relatives and friends an opportunity to honor the criminal.

A much better sentence for serious capital crimes is a lifetime sentence of hard labor, and a meager existence with only bread and water and no TV or other luxuries afforded inmates these days. We want the criminals to wake up every morning and rue the day they decided to take another person’s life.

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