[ark_girl]

Our law doesn't allow us (no matter who tried him) to take care of him the way family members of victims would probably like to see since we don't do torture (and rightfully so).

If we executed him, we'd be giving him what he wanted. He'd get to be paraded on the news every night for the next few years. He'd get to be a poster child for his cause. Libs would decry how inhuman it is that we were executing him. Then, we'd give him a nice big meal and then execute him in the most quick, pain free method possible.

With the punishment he received, he gets no soap box. Nothing newsworthy will really happen related to him, so over the decades he will fall into the background. He'll basically die 40 to 60 years from now with no hoorah, having contributed nothing to speak of to his cause.

This is a young, healthy, probably relatively intelligent guy and he's going to spend the rest of his days (and there are a lot of them) locked in a room by himself with nothing but some boring educational videos, and that's only if he behaves well by the standards of the "great Satan". Otherwise, he gets to sit in his cell 23 hours a day with absolutely nothing. He'll wear what US Government tells him to wear. He'll eat what the government tells him to eat. He'll sleep where the United States government tells him to sleep.

In short, this is probably the closest thing any developed country has to torture. And in the end, he doesn't get to die for a cause. He'll just die of natural causes. He'll probably have wonderful medical care, which will just effectively elongate his sentence. Personally, I think execution would have been too kind for this man...especially since he was trying to off himself in the first place. I think he's getting the worst punishment this country has to offer.

[oceanview]

he will be the "cause celebrite" for a whole host of cases brought by human rights groups on the left. in fact, in your last paragraph - you are essentially writing an amicus brief for those cases - you say "its the closest thing to torture we have" - and when some liberal federal judge agrees with you, that's its cruel and unusual punishment, supermax will be closed.

yes, he would have been around for a few years on death row - but then he would have been gone.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Personally, I think execution would have been too kind for this man...especially since he was trying to off himself in the first place. I think he's getting the worst punishment this country has to offer.

Personally, I'd rather see him swing. In the good ol' cowboy days, this would not even be a matter of serious debate. Rope is cheap enough, and gravity is free, and it would all be over in about 20 minutes...

Society has come along way, but I'm not quite sure all of it can be called Progress.