I don't think he should be put to death. Everyone here advocating it isn't thinking this out...the man is paralyzed and he wants to be martyr. He thinks dying will:
A) Put him out of his misery of being paralyzed.
B) Make him some sort of god for extremist Islamics
C) Media attention for the purpose of point B
Neither of which I'm inclined to allow him to have. Do we really want justice, to teach a lesson to him? Keep him locked up in a hole for the rest of his natural life, keep him clothed, fed, and out of sight, mind, and tongue. Make it so that NO ONE remembers him and in time that'll hurt him far more than any death penalty ever will. Maybe I'm a sadist, but I think giving him exactly the opposite of what he wants should be the punishment. Make a man obsessed with being important become irrelevant and there's no truer hell.
A) Put him out of his misery of being paralyzed.
B) Make him some sort of god for extremist Islamics
C) Media attention for the purpose of point B
Neither of which I'm inclined to allow him to have. Do we really want justice, to teach a lesson to him? Keep him locked up in a hole for the rest of his natural life, keep him clothed, fed, and out of sight, mind, and tongue. Make it so that NO ONE remembers him and in time that'll hurt him far more than any death penalty ever will. Maybe I'm a sadist, but I think giving him exactly the opposite of what he wants should be the punishment. Make a man obsessed with being important become irrelevant and there's no truer hell.