Reply #42: There is no "appropriate" penalty

[quaker bill]

and never could be. Such a penalty is simply beyond imagining.

Were the case proven, I would support a life sentence without parole.

One cannot argue against the death penalty on the basis of individual cases. People, on occasion, behave in ways that would seem to justify all manner of harsh treatments.

The argument against the death penalty is based on what it says about the rest of us as a people, it is never based on the notion that such people as this deserve humane treatment. They deserve no such thing. However this is not truly an excuse for barbarism from the rest of us.

Once killing people is accepted as a plausible answer to a problem, any problem, the course is set and it is all downhill from there.