I left this comment to her article Germany to Send Observer to 9/11 Trial:

2,000 years ago the Rabbis made the application of the death penalty so difficult that they effectively banned it.

Indeed, except for Eichmann, Israel has not executed any other person, no matter how many Jewish women and children the terrorist might have killed. I doubt they will ever again execute anyone.

We usually agree on many subjects, but on this one, I side with the Germans, they should not give any testimony that might lead to the death penalty. It’s time that all mankind finally outlawed the practice.

I lost 98%+ of all my relatives because of the Nazis. I never felt closure nor was my urge for revenge satisfied by the Nuremberg executions.

We no longer stone children to death (except of course, savage Muslims) for disobeying parents because we are no longer so cruel of heart. I know for a 100% certainty that a few hundred years from now capital punishment will be viewed as a barbaric remnant of our ancient and primitive past.

I have written before that if anyone harmed a member of my family I would certainly want to remove the skin from the perpetrator while very slowly lowering him into a vat of boiling oil so that his death would not come for hours.

Notwithstanding that sentiment, I also admit that I would gladly gouge out the eyes of the bank teller who just sits there gabbing instead of tending to business; that I would cream in my pants if I could bash in the head of that guy at the checkout counter who is so stupid that he’s holding up the entire line.

I cannot tell you the joy it would give me to poke a stick into the ass of that idiot waiter who can’t bring me my order on time.

My heart would flutter in happiness if I could simply shoot in the face that meter-maid who stood like a vulture waiting for my last minute to expire to ticket me.

But such savage thoughts should not be acted out by a civilized people.

The photo here depicts the Memorial to the children of Lidice. This former village in the Czech Republic, a few miles northwest Prague, was completely destroyed by the Nazis during World War II in retaliation for the assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. All adult men were shot, women shipped to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and most of the children gassed. All told, 340 people were killed (192 men, 60 women and 88 children).

This was a government sanctioned, legal execution and indeed not one of those executed ever went on to assassinate another Nazi, so in that sense it was the morally right thing to do, from the Nazi point of view. I suppose I should also mention that the relatives of Heydrich were probably quite pleased to get some sort of closure over his murder, and that was a good thing. As for deterrence, the calculated wholesale slaughter apparently did cool both the conquered populace and the enemies of Germany on enthusiasm for further assassinations [ExecutedToday.com].

So there you have it: all of the reasons people support the death penalty:

• the government has the right to execute people.


• It prevents those executed from committing future killings.


• Provides closure to surviving victims or loved ones.


• It deters others not executed from future acts of murder.


• A few innocents may die but it is better than letting one guilty person go free.

So why do we consider the slaughter at Lidice, the legal administration of the death penalty, a brutal, savage and uncivilized act? Aren't the reasons I gave just as valid as those given by death penalty advocates today?

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