Sympathy for the devil???
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only convicted person in the 9/11 attacks has been rejected death penalty by the jury. Now he will serve a life sentence without possibility of parole.
My only sentiment is thorough dejection and disgust. How can a jury respond to a guilty plea against the charges regarding one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind? What justice has this meted out to the families that lost their dear ones in the tragedy? I know that killing one man will not bring back those people. But should he continue to live so that his partners-in-crime can hijack a few planes and get him released? Does the jury deny the possibility of this in its humanitarian decision?
I don’t think any amount of rationalizing can explain this stupid and short-sighted judgement.
Well think of it this way. How do you punish someone ? By denying them what they want. The perpetrator in this case is a wanna-be suicide bomber who *wants* to be martyred. It doesn’t make too much sense to kill a man who wants to die, does it? That way, you would not only be playing into his hands but also providing the extremists a hero to worship. The trick is to keep the man alive and incarcerated. To take away not only his freedom to die but also his dignity and pride by treating him like a petty criminal.
It does not mean that we are in any way underplaying the heinousness of the crimes committed. But we are simply being objective and logical in imparting justice.
-Romi Saznowski
Comment by Anonymous — May 9, 2006 @ 2:28 am
uh huh bugger, this is once when i disagree with you.i think a life sentence is more painful that killing him off.and who can stop others from hatching heinous crimes?
Comment by Anonymous — May 10, 2006 @ 7:13 am
uh huh bugger, this is once when i disagree with you.i think a life sentence is more painful that killing him off.and who can stop others from hatching heinous crimes?
Comment by Vandana — May 10, 2006 @ 7:13 am
Well all said and done…is the US of A waiting for another Kandahar to happen. Every person, this side of the planet knows that one Ripan Katyal lost his life because some fanatics wanted their comrade to be released from an Indian prison. Is something like this far from what can happen in the US?
Comment by Anup — May 10, 2006 @ 10:01 am
This is a fairly stupid thing to say: this wasnt the “heinous crime” in human history. There have been worse - among those committes also by the current settlers of the North American continent. That in no way means that violence is forgivable or a good answer to any human problem -which is what the Hindutva folsk need to learn as well.
Comment by Vidushi — March 23, 2007 @ 3:24 pm