[Justice] Moussaoui Sentence
Life in prison
The use of the death penalty in our fair country is one of the deepest shames I have for being an American. The facts are quite clear, it's not a deterrent. It is cruel and unusual. Plus a system that allows for the execution of the mentally retarded, the elderly, juveniles, and the potentially innocent is abhorrent and unable to be entrusted with such decisions.
The most frightening aspect of the death penalty is the idea of giving the government absolute power over life and death. They can barely educate school children, assist the impoverished, or even pronounce difficult words, such as nuclear.
I am proud of those jurors. The pressure to kill a 9/11 terrorist must be enormous coupled with the wrenching testimony of the victims' family members. Certain portions of the population may be disgruntled because an eye for an eye, but they don't realize executing a man for planning to kill people does not promote the idea that killing is wrong.
2 comments:
For me, it sends a better message to say that for his role he will be removed from the populace and imprisoned for the rest of his days. His ongoing imprisonment is a stronger message than a moment of revenge, a living reminder of consequences of brutality. We also should show more mercy as a society than those that would wish our destruction, if only to convince the world at large that we are not cut from the same cloth as terrorists, would be or otherwise. Also, killing him would play into a martyrdom complex and I'm generally against such behaviour. I'm satisfied with this verdict and sentence.
I agree, I read somewhere, but I don't remember by who that history judges societies on how they treat:
1. the young
2. the old
3. the criminal
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