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2008-11-04 Southeast Asia

Indonesia: Gov't says bombers who killed 202 people must die

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Jemaah Islamiyah

#1 When I think about capital punishment, this passage from Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein, always springs to mind.

Well, if there was no way to keep it from happening once, there was only one sure way to keep it from happening twice.

... he got what was coming to him . . . except that it seemed a shame that he ... practically hadnt suffered at all.

But suppose, ... that he was so crazy that he had never been aware that he was doing anything wrong? What then?

Well, we shoot mad dogs, dont we?

Yes, but being crazy that way is a sickness
I couldnt see but two possibilities. Either he couldnt be made well in which case he was better dead for his own sake and for the safety of othersor he could be treated and made sane. In which case (it seemed to me) if he ever became sane enough for civilized society . . . and thought over what he had done while he was sickwhat could be left for him but suicide? How could he live with himself?
And suppose he escaped before he was cured and did the same thing again? And maybe again?
I couldnt see but one answer.

Posted by Bunyip 2008-11-04 07:46|| 2008-11-04 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 If Obama wins they will be amnistiated

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-04 19:29|| 2008-11-04 19:29|| Front Page Top

#3 If Obama wins they will be amnistiated

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-04 20:08|| 2008-11-04 20:08|| Front Page Top

#4 as long as they die painfully at the end of a quick amnistiation.

I would float them out in the harbor in a cheap dinghy with a lot of kaboom materials and let them guess when it's going off. Then surprise them. Let the brother "recover" the "bodies' with a fine net

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-04 20:52|| 2008-11-04 20:52|| Front Page Top

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