WA5KRP
04-04-2006, 03:09 PM
I am a strong advocate of the death penalty. #As a matter of fact, I think Texas is far too slow in going from conviction to euthanasia but I do find comfort in the fact we lead the nation in annual executions. #So I astonish myself with this thread. #WTF would I want this murderous coward spared the needle?
Lets be clear. #Moussaoui is the only survivor (we have been told about) of the death squads that killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11 and he has confessed to his part in their murders. #His rants make me believe he could just as easily go down a line of 3,000 men, women, and children and put a bullet in each of them right between the eyes. #He is a monster. #I instinctively want this man executed and his ashes spread in a pig pen.
I changed my mind about that recently. #I received an email from a cousin whose brother-in-law was sent to prison for forty years on rape convictions. #His sister showed him a couple letters from her husband who has so far served two years. #He describes prison as brutal and grim and hell on earth and often thinks of suicide. #He wishes he had the courage to cut his throat before something worse happens to him.
Which leads me to think that execution is too good, too simple, too easy for Moussaoui. #Death in the near term is inadequate retribution for a monster. #For that matter, he wants death. #In his belief system those murders will earn him great rewards in his afterlife and the sooner he can get there the better. #Why grant him his wish? #He is a 38 year old man and can reasonably be expected to live another 40 years. #Why should he get a pass on 40 years of hell? #You KNOW prison life for this guy will be doggedly miserable. #Doesn't justice seem better served if he withers away in a cell and old age, instead of a needle, claims his wretched life?
Another practical consideration will be the usual worldwide anti-death penalty crowd whipping millions into a sympathetic frenzy for Moussaoui. #And as usual, we'll come across as a mean bully that has no regard for human rights. #The press will have the world believing there's 300M Americans hell bent on snuffing a freedom fighter. #We don't need the grief or the bad PR that will come with that. #Executing Moussaoui ain't worth it. #We're far better off quietly sending this guy to a deep buried cell. #He will be out of the headlines in less than a week and long forgotten within a month. #It'll just be him and the misery of hell on earth for a very long time.
WA5KRP
Texas
(You can tell I don't like this guy, cantcha...)
Lets be clear. #Moussaoui is the only survivor (we have been told about) of the death squads that killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11 and he has confessed to his part in their murders. #His rants make me believe he could just as easily go down a line of 3,000 men, women, and children and put a bullet in each of them right between the eyes. #He is a monster. #I instinctively want this man executed and his ashes spread in a pig pen.
I changed my mind about that recently. #I received an email from a cousin whose brother-in-law was sent to prison for forty years on rape convictions. #His sister showed him a couple letters from her husband who has so far served two years. #He describes prison as brutal and grim and hell on earth and often thinks of suicide. #He wishes he had the courage to cut his throat before something worse happens to him.
Which leads me to think that execution is too good, too simple, too easy for Moussaoui. #Death in the near term is inadequate retribution for a monster. #For that matter, he wants death. #In his belief system those murders will earn him great rewards in his afterlife and the sooner he can get there the better. #Why grant him his wish? #He is a 38 year old man and can reasonably be expected to live another 40 years. #Why should he get a pass on 40 years of hell? #You KNOW prison life for this guy will be doggedly miserable. #Doesn't justice seem better served if he withers away in a cell and old age, instead of a needle, claims his wretched life?
Another practical consideration will be the usual worldwide anti-death penalty crowd whipping millions into a sympathetic frenzy for Moussaoui. #And as usual, we'll come across as a mean bully that has no regard for human rights. #The press will have the world believing there's 300M Americans hell bent on snuffing a freedom fighter. #We don't need the grief or the bad PR that will come with that. #Executing Moussaoui ain't worth it. #We're far better off quietly sending this guy to a deep buried cell. #He will be out of the headlines in less than a week and long forgotten within a month. #It'll just be him and the misery of hell on earth for a very long time.
WA5KRP
Texas
(You can tell I don't like this guy, cantcha...)