Why is this "good?" The victims families have sought not to execute him and many of you identify as pro-life.
I'd much prefer to see this terrorist spend the remainder of his days being sodomized in his cell until he hangs himself with his sheets or dies in a prison hospital.
Sadistic, dehumanizing people must be punished for being bad people...in the most sadistic, dehumanizing way possible?
Look, I'm all for restraining someone from committing further crimes, and I'm even willing to inflict pain and suffering on someone who did something awful in order to disincentivize further crimes. But what possible moral is there in inflicting excess pain and suffering on someone? Because it feels good to hurt people we think are bad? Do you really think that's healthy, considering that's probably why people like Roof become mass-killers in the first place?
As a general rule, I think if our moral reasoning is "it's OK for me to do this awful thing because I'm a good person," we should really re-think what you're doing.
I don't share Sanchez's sentiment, but I think he means the prisoners doing the sodomizing. But what does count as "excess" harm? Life in prison is certainly a lot of harm regardless of the conditions, but the killer certainly did a lot more harm to his victims. It seems like a tough line to draw, though I agree that what Sanchez described does probably go overboard.
