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I am not in favour of the death penalty. I do believe their crime warranted the most severe penalty allowed under their legal system, which in this case meant death.
Interestingly, many of the victims' families have said they would rather they hadn't been given the death penalty and thereby been refused the martyrdom they so obviously craved. Given how little fear these men had of death, given indeed their active desire to die a martyr's death and their own ability to convince themselves that an execution counts perfectly nicely as martyrdom, a much fiercer punishment would have been life imprisonment.
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