I'm pretty much against the death penalty, but I feel imprisonment should be a harsher punishment than death in the instance of people like him. Would the families be more at peace if he eventually appologised? Perhaps that is a good reason for keeping him alive. But I wouldn't allow him to live on the principle that he might "realise" what he had done and somehow come to terms with it. Does it matter if he is a changed man if he dies behind bars anyway? There's a time and a place for rehabilitation..
|