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sch writes:

in response to BogeyMan2013:

Killing another human being is barbarism, pure and simple. It's barbaric when a man like this who's obviously not possessed of normal faculties does it, but it's even worse when it's done in the name of a supposedly civilized society by people who are possessed of normal faculties.

It's no accident that some of the least civilized countries in the world are the ones that still engage in capital punishment. Is that really the status we aspire to?

If it was obvious that he didn't possess normal faculties, they wouldn't have found him competent to stand trial.

Letting him rot in prison is more than he deserves for killing two people in cold blood. A civilized society doesn't reward killers.
