Mukasey on Execution
March 14th, 2008Michael Mukasey said something quite interesting today: don’t execute the 9/11 plotters because it would martyr them, provide a rallying point for Islamic fundamentalists and give them their wish of being in heaven with a whole lot of virgins (in less words). I think I agree, even though the truest exception I can make against the death penalty is terrorism (especially on the scale of 9/11), both because of the Islamic fundamentalist honor in execution and my own moral qualms about whether or not it is right to prove that killing is wrong by killing. I just thought I’d direct you to it, Dear Reader, and you can decide what you want (but that’s always true at the Office of the Independent Blogger!).
It’s been a busy evening and it will only get busier. I wish you a wonderful night and I’ll be back tomorrow, as usual.