Boston Marathon Bomber Sentenced To Death

[sandyRoe]

Is such a sentence kinder than one of life in maximum security?

[Zacs-Master]

Certainly cheaper.
He needs making an example of.

[chrissa1]

Probably but, he won't want to die.

[nailit]

not so sure its 'kinder' when you're left on death row for years and years and never knowing when (or even if) you're going to die.

[tonyav]

Link here for you, sandy.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/boston-bomber-tsarnaev-sentenced-to-death-for-2013-attack/ar-BBjOydK

[andy-hughes]

I think given the choice, most people would opt to live, even in a maximum security prison, but there are years of appeals to exhaust before he will be anywhere near an execution chamber.

[nailit]

Actually, (without going into the rights and wrongs of this crime) just why do we think its 'kinder' to end someones life? Not talking about the morality of imposing the death sentence just questioning the OP's idea that it may be 'kinder' to take a life?

[Peter Pedant]

There is no appetite in ENgland for the death penalty since we made such a mess of the Irish (non) bombers in the seventiess

[Pete65]

They both sound equally horrible to me.

[nailit]

//They both sound equally horrible to me.//
Lesser of two evils??
As an ex con ive known a lot of lifers, cant think of one who thought it would have been 'kinder' to execute them.

[jourdain2]

Certainly cheaper and less litigious in the end. Presumably he wanted to 'Die for Allah' and become a martyr, so, OK. Kinder as far as he is concerned.

[Pete65]

There are claims in newspapers that Ian Brady wants to die rather than be incarcerated.
Fred West killed himself rather than face trial and a potential life sentence.
Harold Shipman killed himself while serving a life sentence.
I am sure there are more who could not face a lifetime behind bars.

[Khandro]

The actual carrying out of the death sentence isn't the real punishment, that is a matter of simply bang you're dead, end of! The real punishment is the time spent waiting for it to happen, the longer this is, the worse the suffering.
The crime was of such magnitude that he should stay alive and wait in uncertainty.

[Old_Geezer]

No.
But kindness has little to do with it.

[nailit]

//Certainly cheaper and less litigious in the end.//
But that wasnt what the OP asked.
//Presumably he wanted to 'Die for Allah'//
And that wasnt what the OP implied.
The implication was that its kinder to execute people rather than incarcirate them for life.

[Fusion5]

The people he killed never had a choice, neither should he.

[nailit]

Fred West and Harold Shipman are TWO out of thousands of lifers who end it. Brady is full of bull and could of ended it if he'd wanted to.
All lifers that I knew would not have considered it 'kinder' to have been executed, which was the original question.

[askyourgran]

The death sentence for people like him. Why have we still got to pay for Lee Rigsby's killers lounging in jail, let them face the fear as his victim did.

[ukanonymous]

What has happened in this day and age is terrible. Death should not be a punishment. What happened that day should never have happened. However it's staring us all in the face that we are all from the same concious singularity and we will all end up back together.

That's the part I hate... that we are all part of the same thing. Really don't want to be part of the sick people

[nailit]

//Is such a sentence kinder than one of life in maximum security?//
This was the original question, seems to have descended in to the morality maze of should we kill him?