Which one? There were two and granted the bad one put the Lord to the test, not the best thing to do break a commandment as your last act on earth. But even for the bad thief isn't being crucified repentance enough for his sins? Does he really burn in hell for eternity because he did not fully understand the Gospel and Christ's standing as Messiah?
And yes the good thief is saved Christ says "this very day you shall walk with me in paradise."
The thief I was referring to was the one who 'believed'.
I cannot find anyplace that anyone burns in hell for eternity. To burn in hell is to be disposed of not ever to be remembered that point forward. Now personally speaking I do not get off on the notion that the Heavenly Father is a torturer through eternity.
Further it is not the physical flesh body that ends up in the 'lake of fire' but that soul/spirit. And it is Written that the soul/spirit that the Maker sent returns back to Him when this flesh body returns to dust. Some return as believers and the rest are in heaven in their spirit body waiting Christ's own personal boot camp to begin. And if they still reject Christ at the end of boot camp they choose to be destroyed, and then the trouble makers will be no more.
Personally I believe there is going to be some shock and awe when some return to heaven and they find out who else is there.