Boston Bombing

[BjornF16]

I've always thought that Lindh got a raw deal, offered as a scapegoat whom the patriotic masses could direct their anger against. He didn't go to Afghanistan to kill Americans (and AFAIK, he never killed any Americans), he went there to fight the Northern Alliance.

As for Tsarnaev, if you're an advocate of "making an example" of an individual (I'm not, BTW), execution seems like a poor idea. Life imprisonment in solitary confinement may be a better punishment. If he is a true believer in the Islamist cause, he (and other radical Islamists) will view execution as getting him to his eternal reward, not really punishing him. OTOH, solitary confinement for life is not the least bit a rewarding experience. I have a close friend who used to be a prison guard on death row. He told me that after years and years of solitary confinement, death row inmates tend to go insane.

He was in a fire fight with Americans...now he is in prison preaching radical islam and radicalizing converts. He gets out in approx 6 years. Better to have been rid of him. A long stay on death row first is fine with me.

I don't want Tsarnaev in prison doing the same gig as Johnny Taliban...radicalizing other inmates and generally causing problems in prison due to liberal judge rulings of prisoners' rights.