@longgone
Why shpuld the bomber get the right to decide if he wants to die? He deprived all his victims of that choice so I’m not getting why he gets special rights here.
Normally, I’m opposed to the death penalty due to so many cases still being uncovered of people wrongly convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. The Innocence Project has shed a lot of light upon this.
But in this case there’s not the slightest doubt as to his guilt. He killed innocent people just to make a political point. And exactly what was that point?
It doesn’t get more cold-blooded than that. So, I can understand the reasoning of the prosecution in this case. Why should he be granted any special favors at all. He certainly had zero mercy for any of the innocents he harmed.
When I first heard that he and his brother were Chechneyans, my first thought was “what did the US ever do to them? Isn’t their beef with Russia? How does killing American civillians further their cause? All our country ever did was give them unearned and undeserved educational and financial opportunities? So killing innocents is about the cruelest most purposeless response as could be imagined.”
So, if the prosecution is refusing to give them any unearned breaks or plea bargain, so be it.
If that robs him of the opportunity to spend the rest of his life crusading for his “cause” by trying to garner converts in prison, that would me just fine. We don’t need any more of his sadistic ilk spreading their poison and hatching future plans for more destruction.
The only acceptable alternative to the death penalty here would be to deport him to Russia. I would imagine death would be preferable to him over that alternative.
But he forfeited his rights to have any say in the matter when he chose to deprive innocents of their choice to live just to make his political point.