Zacarias Moussaoui wasn’t sentenced to death yesterday. I bet he’s feeling pretty glum now, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to kill himself. What amazes me reading the coverage of this case is the way in which some people are so cold-blooded in calling for him to be killed.
Rosemary Cain, who lost her son George, a New York firefighter, said she heard the verdict on her car radio. “I had a kind of sinking feeling in my stomach,” Ms. Cain said. “I was absolutely hoping they would put him to death.”“He is just an empty, empty person,” she said. “There are just some people who cannot be rehabilitated.”
Well, someone is an empty person but I don’t think it’s Moussaoui. I suppose I should be grateful that I live in a civilised country where our society has advanced beyond this primitive attitude, but I know that there are plenty of people here who have a similarly cavalier attitude to the lives of their fellow humans.
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