No mercy, nothing but political pandering to some vengeance rights, so-called "closure" and "final justice." So are we feeling redeemed yet?—Mike Evans

“Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!” (Psalm 119:1ab).  Again, “The way of truth I have chosen” (Psalm 119:30), as an academic.  “Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent’” (John 6:29).  

Clergy from most of our mainstream religions seem to agree since they remain silent over such barbaric sentences, even in cases where there is obvious remorse and exemplary prison behavior.—Mike Evans

Ah for the guillotine, that most painless, though gory, means of execution.  “but they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he (Stephen) spoke” (Acts 6:10).  The Faithful need such wisdom in this mater of the death penalty.