Yesterday was sentenced to life, Zacharias Moussaoui, the twentieth of terrorists' September 11 2001. The panel of the court has not reached the unaminità on capital punishment and the judge had already expressed its opinion.
I am pretty happy with this decision: the death penalty does not return alive who was brutally killed and also the state (with a capital s) shall not avenge, but to educate.
For this terrorist, sentenced to death penalty was perhaps the most desired by himself: it transformed into a martyr, in an example. The prison for life instead, as well (as me) to be much heavier inwardly, it offers a chance for repentance of the actions made.