So\u00a0Tsarnaev apologises for his crime. Predictable, as in the USA, showing remorse seems to infer\u00a0some kind of leniency, on the American model “You’ll always be forgiven your fuckups and given a second chance”.<\/p>\n
In business, you create a venture, it goes tits-up, you go bankrupt, you get a second chance. This is eminently fair, after all, your backers were venture capitalists who were fully aware that they might lose their shirt.<\/p>\n
Tsarnaev’s case is very different, he maimed and killed. Purportedly in the name of a religion. Said religion does not, in its majority, condone maiming and killing, although it’s a fine line, given the lack of condemnation by the muslim community.<\/p>\n
Let us be perfectly clear, the death penalty has little dissuasive effect (on psychotics, who by definition aren’t in ‘our’ world). The death penalty serves a simple\u00a0purpose: the culprit cannot do it again and he cannot propagate his genes. There is no credible argument which would allow the remote possibility that\u00a0Tsarnaev could reproduce; his crime is so ignominious that he must be eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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