Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Bomber, has been sentenced to death. The jury took almost 15 hours to reach this verdict which I disagree with.
To morally justify this on the basis of “an eye for an eye” is uncivilized and immoral. This type of justice harks from the infancy of our species when we truly behaved like the animals we are. We’ve since grown up and have other options available to us to ensure our collective safety from the deranged.
Killing killers achieves nothing. It will not stop other killers from killing again, particularly other killers who also believe, like Tsavnaev did and quite probably still does, that killing non Muslims is a ticket to eternal paradise.
Executing Tsarnaev will only make him a martyr and rally other Islamic extremists to follow in his footsteps or to join the Islamic State.
To fight the scourge of religious fundamentalism, we need to kill religion not the religious.
Teenage Daydream 