formerly present wrote:
1. I don't think the state should be in the business of taking life.
2. It's much cheaper--like an order of magnitude cheaper--to keep this asshole alive and imprisoned for 70 years, compared to the *total* cost to execute him.
3. I want his punishment to last and last and last.
4. I want him NOT to be a martyr. Anyone heard much about this guy lately?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_SirhanHe's been in jail for going-on a half-century now, and most of the last few decades he's been anonymous--just another felon who's been prevented from hurting the general public and from reproducing himself (the two main benefits of imprisonment).
When we give them publicity and pay them attention, the terrorists win--those are *exactly* what they're after.
1. Nor should citizens. Didn't stop Tsarnaev.
2. Just revoke his citizenship so that he's no longer gauranteed expensive things like appeals, then it will be cheap to execute him.
3. They could kill him slowly.
4. He's only seen as a martyr if his death is known. Don't announce that he's been killed.