“Let Moussaoui Live” Because the Death Penalty is Bad and Stuff.

There are, I think, principled reasons to oppose the death penalty. Richard Cohen gives us none of them in his column today.

He says that we should not execute Zacharias Moussaoui and gives several reasons, among them: 1) because Moussaoui wants to die; 2) because it would make him a martyr; 3) revenge is bad and killing Moussaoui can not in any way be called justice because Richard Cohen said so; 4) because Europe generally has outlawed the death penalty and they know better than us; 5) our death penalty is every bit as capricious and barbaric as that of Afghanistan; and 6) if we outlawed the death penalty, other nations would follow our good example and outlaw their death penalties.

I’m on a tight schedule for most of the early part of today, so I don’t have time to address why Cohen’s column is a ginormous puff pastry of liberal platitudes and fantasy-creation greater than that of J.R.R. Tolkien, but I may be able to later in the day.

In the meantime, see what you can do with his “arguments” in the comments. Heck, you just may write the rest of this post for me!

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