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Islamic State 'Beatle' Kotey sentenced to life in U.S. prison

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Scum.

how do you sleep at night?

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Parts of London now resemble the Middle East in demographic and scenery.

I am not surprised that a large number of extremists hail from there

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Pathetic how a government spends so much money on human garbage like this, with the execution you save space, time and money, and by the way you do true justice..

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Pathetic how a government spends so much money on human garbage like this, with the execution you save space, time and money, and by the way you do true justice..

Do you really, though? I mean, by executing him, you're making him a matter in the minds of extremists. This way, he has the rest of life to reflect on the terror caused others.

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The punishment needs to fit the crime. If he is guilty of beheadings, then he should be mandatorily executed. There is no justice in a life sentence for murder. The American public pays for his life sentence, and needs to stop.

Why keep him alive at taxpayer's expense? Do you really think he could be rehabilitated and turn loose on society? What about the victims?

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A first hand account of the kinds of off the hinge terror these people engage in. A bit long but well worth reading. I was crying a bit by the end.

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/03/against-all-odds-yazidi-girl-outlives-her-top-ranking-islamic-state-captors

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The punishment needs to fit the crime. If he is guilty of beheadings, then he should be mandatorily executed.

I understand the sentiment but disagree with it. The barbarity of the criminal does not justify one stooping to similar barbarity. If we are to call ourselves better societies than these terrorists aspire to then we have to act like it.

I was reminded of this decades ago during our Code of Conduct training in the US Navy, training administered to us in part by some famous Vietnam War POWs like Jerimiah Denton and Doug Hegdahl. Our instructors were adamant that we did not engage in torture or other war crimes not because our enemies somehow deserved better treatment than they gave our prisoners in their custody but because it was beneath us as a nation to stoop that low. We were supposed to be better than that as a society and as a nation and as members of the military we had better darn well act better than our enemies. We don't engage in beheadings as punishment because it is barbaric and we are not barbarians. It really is that simple.

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