I can't understand that?

Question

I can't understand why when we capture a terrorist
we keep him alive with a life sentence this is not justice
this people they deserve a death penalty but old style
by electric chair BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
our judicial system said all Americans they have to pay
money in order to guarantee a life sentence to this criminal..
this is justice?
If I am wrong please tell me where because I can't understand that.

death he will be viewed as a martyr

oh sure?!!! well for speculation a terrorist
can think" I blast some assholes and who care if the catch me? that stupid morons they will give me a place to live and I will not worry anymore to how find a way to eat
and maybe one day I can become rich by write down a book " best seller"

well I will feel much much better to know this people the get a death penalty and if this for them is martyr is fine...

give to them...

The death penalty has no place in civilised society. These people WANTED to be martyrs, does it not occur to you that the most approproate punishment is to deny them that by keeping them alive?!

well sister if you want fight against terrorists
with this policy I can guarantee we never win thats for sure...
Just remember this this people they will not hesitate to kill your child in front your face and they will let you go in order you will remember what they can do for the rest of you life...
I hope you will never have to deal with this kind of tragedy .

Answer 1

Take no prisoners:

Bin Laden
Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah
Ali Atwa
Anas Al-Liby
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Hasan Izz-Al-Din
Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali
Imad Fayez Mugniyah
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
Abdul Rahman Yasin
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil
Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie
Saif Al-Adel
Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub
Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah
Abd Al Aziz Awda
Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani
Isnilon Totoni Hapilon
Jainal Antel Sali, Jr.
Mohammed Ali Hamadei
Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi
Jaber A. Elbaneh
Ahmadinejad
Kim Il-sung
Hugo Chávez
Khaled Mashaal
Ali Khamenei
Hassan Nasrallah
Bashar al-Assad
Jamil Ahmed Badawi
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Saif Al-Adil
Shaikh Saiid Al-Sharif
Tawfiq Attash Khallad
Saad bin Laden
Abu Mohammad Al-Masri
Abu Hafs The Mauritanian
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith
Midhat Mursi
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
Ahmad Said Al-Kadr
Zaid Khayr
Abu Basir Al-Yemeni
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Jamal
Zakariya Essabar
Said Bahaji

Answer 2

My opinion is that mankind should be responsible to attempt to rehabilitate their criminals. If we don't then we run the risk of that disease increasing and becoming more dangerous because of the increase in abandonment that killing produces. Living creatures do what they do because they have been predestined to do it within our illusory roller coaster ride of life. But when we realize that people have been programmed from birth to become whatever they become along with their genes and we realize that everything is subject to change, can we not eventually domesticate our animalistic nature when we need to? We don't want to kill the animal in us, we want to be able to harness that energy for civil purposes don't we? And what do we owe other societies and ourselves for having helped create such monsters by sponsoring state terrorism in years gone by to serve our national security interests? It is definitely a mixed bag and I don't blame you for not understanding this up to now. But even abusive families are made from the unresolved grief of wars and such from the past. So we as a society even though we are individually not so responsible maybe, our society has created the terrorists. They and their families deserve a break. Remember that if you were not given proper nutrition or proper upbringing, you would not be so loving either. The best we can do to prevent this terrorist upbringing is to prepare each other, to share circumstance so that we can all come to common understanding of what to expect from the grief we can come in contact with and eventually intervene gracefully to dampen the terrorist behaviors over time.

Answer 3

Killing prisoners, whether by action or inaction, is wrong.

Causing or aggravating injury to one or more prisoners, whether by action or inaction, is wrong.

Detention and/or other penalization of persons for thoughtcrime and/or dissent is wrong.

There is no crime, however heinous, for which any person ought to forfeit his or her life.

In any state founded on the principles of freedom and liberty:

(a) neither religion nor theology can determine policy or law;

(b) (1) suspicion is insufficient cause to detain a person, (2) force applied or directed against a suspect is limited to only that necessary to effect the subduing, arresting and/or detentaining of that suspect, (3) the doctrines of self-defense and the defense of others against imminent grave bodily injury justify the use of lethal force.

(c) accusation is predicated on both (1) probable cause for investigation and (2) conspicuous respect for the rights of the accused, which are not diminished;

(d) each person is entitled (1) to due process of law following accusation, (2) to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, (3) to an impartial jury of his or her peers, and (4) to appeal conviction the person adjudicated guilty believes such conviction was wrongfully obtained.

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Statistically:

The death penalty increases the incidence of capital crimes.

Even without taking into account the social benefits arising from lowered incidence of capital crimes, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is less expensive on a per-prisoner cost basis than the death penalty.

Terrorism:

Assuming you've found a "radical Islamist terrorist" (which in the USA seems to be the popularly-determined greatest threat), killing that person only makes him or her a martyr -- thus inspiring future generations of radical Islamist terrorists.

Each time a person having ties to the Middle East (a) is wrongly accused of terrorism, or (b) is "accidentally" killed by the USA or its allies, or (c) is raped, or (d) is humiliated and degraded, or (e) is the victim of any sort of violence at the hands of the USA or its allies or their agents -- the extended families of those persons are inspired to avenge the wrong suffered by their loved one and/or distant relative:

All those things only breed future terrorism. Each time one so-called terrorist becomes the victim of unrighteous policies and/or unjust laws, hundreds of terrorists are created to take his or her place -- because justice extends across generations, especially in Middle Eastern culture.

In other words, you might not have any idea that your great, great, great, great grand-daddy killed the rebellious son of a slave he owned -- but you can bet if he did that someone, somewhere out there has painted a target on your head, because you are the icon of your ancestor's bad behavior.

In the USA, this is what fuels the arguments favoring reparations from "white folk" to "negroes." Globally, it is what drives terrorism.

Look at where the terrorists have hit, and in EVERY case, you'll note that the government was depriving people of freedom and liberty -- and the worse that was the crackdown against civil liberty, the greater was the violence arising from terrorism.

The only way to prevent terrorism is to have a free country.

Answer 4

The reason that most criminals with a death sentence are not put to death is so they can contribute to prison labor. Work that was once outsourced to Mexico, the Caribbean Basin, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim countries is now done by the inexhaustible supply of US prisoners, who make pennies on the dollar.

Answer 5

Just so as I understand you.

There are a heck of a lot of people in other countries that view Bush, Blair and crew as terrorists.
You know mothers who have seen their kids blasted into pea sized pieces by American bombs; aimed at what America and Britain perceive as the "Bad Guys"

Now were Bush, Blair and crew to fall into the hands of these people would it be ok for them to be put to death because they are terrorists?

Put your hands up if you think so?

No! I thought not!

Well there you have it in a nutshell!

I don't have to like, believe in , or refrain from wanting to kill terrorists. But I cannot bring myself down to the animistic level that requires blood to alleviate my pain.
And I hope to God I never can.

Answer 6

The death penalty has no place in civilised society. These people WANTED to be martyrs, does it not occur to you that the most approproate punishment is to deny them that by keeping them alive?!

Answer 7

I agree with you on this one. But unfortunately we have a vast amount of American Citizens who believe that killing a killer, is putting us on the same level as they are. They are so worried about ensuring the terrorists rights, they forget about the innocents that have lost their lives (and rights). Then you have those that try to quote the Constitution, where it says "no cruel and unusual punishment", disregarding the fact that the terrorist surely didnt' take that into consideration when they were torturing and killing. But hey as long as the terrorist aren't "inconvienced", right? Personally, if that is the best argument they can come up with then fine, give the terrorist an overdose of Morphine, let them slip off "peacefully" as long as they slip off!

Answer 8

I know that its sound unfair but we are bound by the articles of the Geneva Convention. I dont know if you remember but some of our marines have been Court Martialed for mistreatment of captures terrorists, and innocent civilians. I dont want to start executing people because this means that they can drag our soldiers off the street and do the same thing. I dont mind using my tax money to try them in open court and letting the world see that we can follow procedure and then yes locking them up for life . I THINK THAT IT IS MONEY WELL SPENT!!!

Answer 9

Personally I don't believe you are wrong {I agree with you 100%}

The only thing I have ever been able to think of is that if we did put these terrorists to death {as I believe we should} then we would have every extremist in the world running around blowing things up in their honor.

Answer 10

i think the reasoning is that if a terrorist is put to death he will be viewed as a martyr by those he follows or who follow him. it's giving them what they want. to them, martyrdom is the ultimate reward. so why give them that satisfaction and bring further people to seek martydom?