The Lockerbie Bomber has been freed.

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The Scottish Government disregarded international calls for him to be kept in Prison, and now he has been freed.
 
Considering he's about to fall over dead, it's not exactly as if he's going to pose much of a danger any more.
 
Ciaran said:
But it's the principle
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This. He's been in prison for what... around 22-23 years? There are people who have committed crimes of much lesser magnitude and spend their entire lives and eventually even die in prison still. Why shouldn't this man after killing 270 people?
 
Prison is meant to be a means of rehabilitation or - in worst case scenarios - public protection by keeping them locked up. It's not a back door for capital punishment.

Regardless of what the man did, he's still a human being and we're bound by our own morality (and laws) to respect that or we're absolutely no better than he is. He was going to be spending his last few weeks in hospital anyway, he may as well do so with what's left of his family - for their sake if not for his.

He poses no further danger, and he's hobbling off home to die. He's done his time and served his punishment. It's time to move on and put the past behind us.
 
Never underestimate a man because he;s physically unhealthy. What's he got to lose?
 
Doctor Oak said:
He was going to be spending his last few weeks in hospital anyway, he may as well do so with what's left of his family - for their sake if not for his.
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Right, he should be given the same chance the people he killed were given, to spend their last moments with their families.

Wait...

And again, there are people in US prisons who are locked up all their lives, get sick, and die in prisons for much lesser crimes. What makes this person special?

Well, we're probably on two different sides here. I tend to be liberal in most of my opinions, but in the case of murder/mass-murder I believe the taking of an innocent person's life is inexcusable. And in this case we have quite a staggering number of said persons' lives.
 
fate said:
What makes this person special?
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He's in the Uk. Here we don't practise cruelty and punishment for cruelty and punishment's sake. What that man did was horrendous, but by keeping him locked up in a jail cell, to die away from his family makes us as bad as him. Preventing the man from being with his family as he dies is helping no one - it won't bring back a single of the hundreds of lost lives, whereas at least his family now have a chance to say goodbye. Why should they suffer because he did wrong?
 
Whoa now, don't assume me heartless, because I am not. I do not believe in punishment for the sake of punishment either.

Yes, I agree it's terrible that any person be separated from his/her family... but it is not our fault he made the decision to kill 270 people, people who did not get to see their families one last time either.

We're from two sides of the lake here so I imagine we won't see eye to eye on this. I agree with you that his family should not be punished for his decisions, but I still believe he should be held responsible for his crimes.
 
That fucker should have been left to rot in jail.

Fuck the 'need' to die at home with his family, he murdered 200+ people. This si one of the cases with Life should mean LIFE, he should have been left to die in prison.

Instead of receiving a heros welcome back in terroist supporting Libia.

This makes me sick to my stomache.

Is it just me or would have have been to ironic to have blown up the plane he was flying back on ???
 
Magmaster12 said:
Yes but nobody has mentioned the fact that the guy has cancer
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... yeah we did. I said in one of my posts that he was sick.

Who are we talkin' about?
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You could have google'd it... anyway, it's someone who bombed a plane, killing a lot of people, who has now been released from prison.
 
Jabberwocky said:
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......Shit, someone like that's out of the cooler?
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And is about to drop over dead. If he's no threat to anyone anymore, then keeping him locked up in prison is just wasting space in a cell that could be used to house someone who's a more serious immediate threat. I'm not condoning his crime, but he's got what...two weeks tops to live? Maybe less? Let him spend it with his family, since he's going to be in a hospital anyway.
 
Jabberwocky said:
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......Shit, someone like that's out of the cooler?
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Are you kidding me dude? Did you read any of the posts in this thread? Did you even consider trying to find out what this thread is actually about before blathering aimlessly?

He bombed a plane in 1988, was imprisoned in 1999, and was recently released by the Scottish government because he has cancer and has an estimated three months left to live. The decision to release him was very unpopular with the international community.

Of course you could have easily found that out with a quick google or wiki search. Whatever.
 
You know, people get life sentences(with three strikes, things like that) for holding drugs/using them/selling them things like that, but this guy gets to walk free. His family could just make the effort to visit him in the prison. If he has cancer, what better way to go out with a bang than with a suicide bombing or something.....

Maybe if we catch Bin Laden, we can let him out because he may have a disease....
 
Alright, you lot seemingly are retarded.

What actually happened is a classic case of The Pikachu And The Porygon. Some guy from the CIA or some shit like that bombed the plane, and pinned the blame on the other guy, who has suffered due to it. While I don't know why, my opinion is that he knew too much, and the government wanted him out of the picture.
 
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The fact that he has cancer, and has the mindset of "infidels must die" type of extremism, what's to say he won't try to go out in a blaze of glory?

He should have died and rotted in prison. This is one case where I would be in favor of feeding the ravens, or maybe the old world kinds of capitol punishment used by the scottish.

Maybe that's too gruesome...
 
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