Suspect in Afghan Massacre to face multiple murder and assault charges
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I feel sorry for the guy, War changes people.
[sp]Just ask my Girlfriend.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Sanius;35263323]yes because throwing somebody in prison for the rest of their life is so much more humane than killing them[/QUOTE]
So you'd rather die instead in his situation? Speak for yourself.
[QUOTE=Aetna;35264114]So you'd rather die instead in his situation? Speak for yourself.[/QUOTE]
no I'd rather be treated like a human being and rehabilitated
[QUOTE=Sanius;35264184]no I'd rather be treated like a human being and rehabilitated[/QUOTE]
I'm glad you're not the one who makes the calls in this situation, then. I doubt you'd be saying that if it had been your entire extended family he had killed.
[QUOTE=Aetna;35264653]I'm glad you're not the one who makes the calls in this situation, then. I doubt you'd be saying that if it had been your entire extended family he had killed.[/QUOTE]
yes I would. please don't think on my behalf
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when did this section become pro-vengeance? did I miss a memo?
he must have really fucked up our reputation there even worse than what it was
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I say we give him the rope.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2uFacq4O4[/media]
[QUOTE=NoDachi;35259019]I'm sorry. But this isn't 1914.
You don't throw people against the wall for flipping shit.
In fact you shouldn't do that for... well anything.[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
But as things stand he's a marine serving a state that has applied death penalty, and you can't go around executing law violating criminals(Who where probably just as emotionally stressed either duo to having no money, living in a shit area, etc) and at the same time let a mass murderer off, on grounds of emotional stress.
That to be quite frank is ridiculous.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;35259422]You do realise how stressful low-intensity conflicts are?
My cousin was traumatised in bosnia, and he never was shot at or shot in return.[/QUOTE]
And you hopefully realize the impact of a country side village having 24 people murdered over-night.
As stated above, I am not for the death penalty, but if a Marine(That wasn't even drafted) snaps and does that you can't just cut him extra slack because he was serving his country on foreign soil with a presumable stressful function over there.
He wasn't drafted but he wasn't allowed to leave. He was too good a soldier and they kept deploying him over and over. Eventually PTSD got to him after his requests for help were ignored. You cannot tell me you actually believe he, in a completely normal state of mind, went out and murdered 17 civilians in cold blood.
PTSD is a factor here, and it was caused by being deployed over and over against his will into hot combat zones. Maybe he is a violent drunk, maybe he joined the army to straighten himself out. You don't know anything about this man except his criminal record, and it looks like he knew he had a problem because [I]he kept asking for help.[/I] He doesn't deserve death penalty, he doesn't deserve life in prison, he deserves the help he requested over and over, and release from the military.
He doesn't deserve his life either.
An afghani court should prosecute this man but on the condition of no death penalty.
Any other murderous subhuman would get the death penalty. I don't see why this excuse of a soldier shouldn't.
You wouldn't against that if it was an afghani that killed nearly 20 american soldiers.
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