Although John Allen Muhammad drove around randomly shooting people out of a small hole in his car, is it right that he should pay the highest price. Many people think that putting such a sick person like this to death is the perfect punishment; and it very well may be. But there are other options. Did we kill this man because he was too dangerous to live or did we kill him in vengeance for all the lives he took. If he were to spend the rest of his life in a high security prison, wouldn't he be safe and paying a heavy price? Death seems like such an easy way out for a human who kills people most likely for sport.
It just seems like the United States looks as death as the ultimate punishment, but what if we gave this sick criminal exactly what he wanted. Obviously he had severe mental problems, even if we could have hospitalized him; maybe we could have found out what went wrong inside.
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