I'm going to keep this short, but I absolutely have to mention this:
There are plenty of news articles and blog posts about exactly how insane the proceedings of this trial have been. I am not going to talk about that… I am more interested in the finale of this peculiar modern play.
I can sum up my response with a single word: “Amen!” Justice and humanity has prevailed with jury’s decision to sentence
Moussaoui to life in prison. No san
e human being can deny that
Moussaoui deserves to be locked away or otherwise sealed off from civilized society.
Yet it has always been my belief and even with such misguided, bastardized souls… the death penalty is an utterly ridiculous human rights abuse. In a typical situation the death penalty is equivalent to saying an individual can not be better than that horrible moment in their life when they made a disgusting mistake.
Aside from the moral optimistic aspect, I’ve always felt that if you want to bring justice and respond to the atrocities tha
t may merit the death sentence, but if that is merited it would be far more of a punishment to have that individual rot in a jail cell.
What really kills (pun definitely intended) me is that repugnant idea of morality and justice that people who support the death penalty tout. If we say murder and killing is wrong are we as a society justified to engage in the act of murder even if it is in exchange for a life.
Back to the topic of
Moussaoui… I am overjoyed that this twisted soul has been spared because not only would it be normally wrong to use the death penalty, but because of the fanatic nature of radical Islam.
Moussaoui had openly admitted he wanted to be killed to that he could become a martyr. This is precisely why I find it unimaginable, even as ignorant as some people we still have a substantial percentage of the population who wanted to see the verdict be decided differently. I excuse the victims; they are overwhelmed by grief and anger.
The “President” (quotes intentional) is flat wrong as he normally is to label this as an act of mercy.
Mercy was in no way a factor… no body should have mercy on
Moussaoui; the jury simply did the right thing.
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