I believe bin Laden was given a proper Islamic burial, albeit at sea. I don't think that is any less respectful than laying in the ground.
Like the last episode of Sherlock!
Sounds like he might have an ace under his sleeve.
Or he's just nuts.
Like the last episode of Sherlock!
Soulds like he migth have an ace under his sleeve.
Or he's just nuts.
And he has been sentenced to death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-sentence.html?_r=0
I don't think the death penalty achieves much. The social matrix is better healed, after a heinous crime, by its perpetrator becoming part of the mundane. We exact the best vengeance by forgetting and moving on. I think life imprisonment realises this more efficiently.
Life in prison would have been much worse.
Typically I would be in the same boat in opposing the death penalty. I think that unless you have unusual circumstances, it shouldn't be used at all. However, I consider Tsarnaev to be one of those unusual circumstances.I don't think the death penalty achieves much. The social matrix is better healed, after a heinous crime, by its perpetrator becoming part of the mundane. We exact the best vengeance by forgetting and moving on. I think life imprisonment realises this more efficiently.
Typically I would be in the same boat in opposing the death penalty. I think that unless you have unusual circumstances, it shouldn't be used at all. However, I consider Tsarnaev to be one of those unusual circumstances.
On top of his incredibly heinous actions, Tsarnaev has clearly shown that there is absolutely no chance of being properly rehabilitated into proper society (which is what prison should be doing) and has shown absolutely no remorse for what he has done. He is essentially the equivalent of Old Yeller in my opinion and needs to be put down like the hopeless rabid dog that he is. When you have members of the Obama Administration that are typically opposed to the death penalty like Eric Holder were fine with imposing the death penalty on Tsarnaev, I think that's telling how bad his crimes and lack of remorse are.
I think that the social matrix would be better healed with Tsarnaev dead in this instance and the sooner the better.
Globally speaking, the "USA!!!! USA! !!!!!" rabid delight in Bin Laden's assassination was unhelpful, as it appeared to represent triumphalism among a privileged and distanced public at the death of an adversarial underdog.
All the same I should say that, if America wishes to retain the death penalty, a nonsense would have been made of it were it not levelled at this prisoner at this time.