[Indy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What place does pragmatics have in emotive issues?

It's a pointless argument. He got life in prison, people were already screaming that he deserved lethal injection. If he'd gotten death, they would've been screaming that he deserved life in prison so he'd suffer longer. He's dead now, and people are screaming that it's not good enough. No legal punishment on earth would ever have been good enough, so not much point in pretending people would suddenly have been happier if he'd been wasting away in prison for the next however many years until someone shanked him on his way to the showers.