mozzaok wrote on Jan 15
th, 2009 at 7:06pm:
Quote:I think that the people convicted of terror crimes in Australia should have been charged with treason and shot.
And yet you still believe you have the right to label others as barbaric, interesting.
I would have not expected any lawyer to still support the death penalty in any form.
Why not? It's the appropriate penalty for certain crimes. Humanely executed of course. Many lawyers in the US support the death penalty.
Certain crimes warrant the death penalty. Martin Bryant should have been executed. Killing 38 people and wounding a 100 or so, life in prison is not enough. He gets to lift weights, watch TV and do 'crafts' with counsellors, or a bit of study for the rest of his life while 38 other people are dead. How is that 'just?'
You think that people plotting to blow us up, civilians, in the name of Islam, shouldn't get the death penalty? Instead, we can let them stay in prison. Convert fellow prisoners. Lift some weights. Preach to the ummah. Run a drug empire outside of prison with a smuggled mobile phone. Far better than a death penalty right. And all with your taxdollars.
You kill one person, you may get life. You kill 1000. You get life, you detonate a nuke in Sydney, and kill a million or so you still only get life (although the Police would kill you when they got you, so, only in theory). How is that 'just'?
The just penalty for some crimes is death. But only, some crimes. These would be, in my view:
- treason
- rape of children
- mass murder;
- murder with heinous circumstances, for example, committing a murder in a gruesome manner, say, through causing long and painful suffering to the deceased.
Not for changing religions or happening to be an 'infidel.' That's where we differ on what I consider 'barbaric'.
But the execution, after a fair trial, of people plotting to commit terrorist acts against Australians? I think that's just.