re: #70 Targetpractice

I honestly don’t see any reason to pursue the death penalty. There’s no chance of him ever seeing the outside world again and putting him on death row just means the Feds will now spend more money fighting against appeals for years to come.

Usually I think that the expense of death penalty cases is a sufficient reason to settle for life imprisonment in spite of the brutality of your garden variety murder. But when someone sets off bombs killing and maiming so many people, I think the state is justified spending the extra money. With so many nutcases talking about seceding, watering the tree of liberty, and taking up arms against our elected government it makes sense for the state to make it clear that such attacks against the government or the citizenry will be punished by death.