Breaking News: Boston bomber tells victims he's sorry as judge formally sentences him to death

[palou]

McDonaldsGuy said:

palou said:
I do not believe that punishment should be, in any way or form, goal of the justice system. The goal of all forms of government should be to search ideal life conditions for all people, including criminals. Punishing purely for revenge is counterproductive to this, and for me, is higly unmoral.

I do not believe that a death sentence would impede other individuals of committing similar acts, over a life sentence, quite the contrary, in fact. Many religious extremists consider death to be more honourable than being captured; anyone afraid of death awould not participate in these activities in the first place, considiring the high risk (and examples of this risk, such as the other brother.)

I thus believe the death sentance to be both unethical and counterproductive.

This really made me angry - you just basically said his victims mean nothing. It's "immoral" to kill him yet perfectly OK for him to place a bomb near an 8 year old to blow up. Unreal.

I never said that it was right of him to do what he did. It is, without a doubt, an atricity without comparisipn. However, for the reasons previously stated, killing him will not help to prevent further such incidents. And in such a case, I do no see how it would be productif, for us as a society, to take his life. What he did is extremely wrong, but I do not see the point of punishment, in general, beyond preventing further evils.

Revenge has no place in our modern society.