I don’t get why people support the death penalty in certain cases. It is never fair, moral or ethical.
This man did something absolutely horrible, but not close, not even by a factor of ten, to what the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik did.
In Norway we imprisoned him, probably for life, but we don’t kill him. We make sure he has a life that is reasonably comfortable inside prison. Because we are better than him. All life has value. Even his. We spend the miniscule amount of money is to provide him a decent life within confinement.
Recently a person was found innocent after spending about 20 years in prison for rape and killing two children. He would have been dead if we had capitol punishment in Norway.
Even if he seems lost completely and outside the possibility of rehabilitation, we give everyone a somewhat worthy life.
There are individualistic and collective ways of looking at this. Did society fail these people? Why did they become this way? Or was this destined to happened, because they are in some way inherently evil. If society failed in some way, then they at least deserve the minimum of a reasonably comfortable life in prison.
Because it is always partly a failing of society, true justice is never death.
This person could only bring sympathy from an anti-capital punishment absolutist. For those of us who oppose capital punishment because the Sate gets it wrong so often, we have to acknowledge some times they get it right.
Am I a hypocrite? DAE want them to end capital punishment the day after they fry Dylan Roof?
Personally, I’m against the death penalty not because these kinds of people don’t deserve it, but our justice system can not adequately ensure other people with the same charges have actually done the crime, and there are many people within the system that can’t be trusted with that nuance. People can’t be trusted with giving out the death penalty.
Yeah apologies, I should have more explicitly agreed with the post. Just wanted to expand my thoughts a little on it.
Cases like this make it so difficult. As rule, I think capital punishment is wrong. But then someone like this guy who, whether his time in the military made him one or he was just a broken individual, is a monster and shouldn’t exist shows up. It’s wrong to treat any prisoner inhumanly, but damn is it hard to say this dude should have spent all of his time on death row in a metal box with not even a bed.
I still say that the death penalty should not exist, but I’m not going to give this guy a second thought today.
Let him fry.
The court found that his exposure to “sarin gas and numerous explosions while serving in the Middle East as well as his various post-war symptoms were well-known during or before his trial.”
Country sends this guy to war where he is exposed to something and does not take of him or any veterans for that matter properly
Not your fellow citizens fault we live like this
Wouldn’t blame the slaves back then for being in their position
again throw seeds in rocky hard soil either don’t grow or grow shitty
toxic media + low education funding + no universal healthcare + nonliving wages + jackboots + pollution
= a population like we have now
