Can The U S Execute This Terrorist? Do New York State's Death Penalty Rules Cover It?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41848151
I googled and as far as I can tell they have the death penalty for killing a police officer or committing murder whilst on a life sentence. Maybe federal laws applies in terrorism cases. Does that allow execution? This is not a debate about the rights and wrongs of executions.

[ToraToraTora]

well they don't actually have to be coated but that could be arranged could it not?

[douglas9401]

Aye Eddie, because having sex with an eight year old boy would just be weird,

Get a grip man.

[Jahulaye]

Well I won’t be first in the queue to marinade a dead serial killers body with pig fat but guess many others would cheerily do it.

[EDDIE51]

Spicerack having worked in a jail I can assure you that the 'don't bend over in the showers' is just a joke the old lags use to scare new inmates.
In fact homosexuality is far less common in jails than in the outside world.
Nalit who has been in prison several times agrees with me on this. 'Queer bashing' is still rife in prisons. Anyone male suspected of being Gay in prison is in danger of a severe beating rather than anything else.

[Jahulaye]

I heard this also about uk jails, but abroad especially in the us and South African jails, homosexuality and rape are almost part of your stay there

[Spicerack]

A) It was a joke
B) You never worked in an American prison.

[ummmm]

Eddie - Aisha was six when Muhammad married her!

[naomi24]

//spending the rest of his life, miserable in a superman jail is more a punishment //

From my point of view it's not about punishment. It's about ridding the world of him - permanently.

[andy-hughes]

Eddie - // Locking him up will be far worse to Muslim eyes and may deter other prospective Martyrs from doing the same. //

I would suggest that any Muslim terrorist will accept any punishment offered, it will never deter any others from the same actions because they believe they are right in what they are doing, and accept punishment as an occupational hazard of being the 'believers' they see themselves to be.

[Jahulaye]

“about punishment. It's about ridding the world of him - permanently.”

Which gives him and his sympathisers exactly what they want

[naomi24]

What they want is irrelevant.

[Jackdaw33]

Transfer the case to Texas. They'll make short work of him there.

[Jahulaye]

“What they want is irrelevant.”

Well you have your view and I have mine but I’d like them to not receive the “martyrdom” they’d kill innocents for

[youngmafbog]

Jail will also be viewed as Martyrdom.

Short rope long drop with the Saddam shuffle.

[andy-hughes]

Given the horror of this man's actions, it's entirely easy to see why the emotional response is to call for his execution, and I suspect that President Trump, with his mind ever on the opinion ratings, will want to look like he is in tune with the people on this.

But a president needs pragmatism, and that means careful consideration, away from the emotional knee-jerk response.

President Trump is in a difficult position - an execution will give a large proportion of his voters satisfaction, but it will also make a martyr out of the criminal.

Prison may also give a degree of martyrdom status, but in my view, it would the better option for the president to pursue.

As keyboard opinionators, we can all say what we think, but as President, he has to make the decision, and live with the consequences.

[Jahulaye]

“he has to make the decision, and live with the consequences”

My guess is if he could overrule all global rules, laws and conventions, he’d cheerily push the switch on the electric chair and have a great nights sleep

[youngmafbog]

Yup why not get an anti Trump post in eh?

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // Yup why not get an anti Trump post in eh? //

If that post is not for me, then apologies, but if it is, can I ask what is 'anti-Trump' about what I have said?

[andy-hughes]

YMB - or if it is for Jahulaye, I fail to see anything 'anti-Trump' there either - hopefully you can direct me accordingly.

[ToraToraTora]

who gives a rats plaster whether his fellow scum think he's martyr F/F\S what does that even mean anyway? he's revered in a barbarous religion? so kin what he's still brown bread and not many beyond his twisted sect will be thinking he's a martyr anyway.