Justice demands the death penalty in certain cases. Anyone who opposes said penalty in principle I consider morally obtuse. As for Mangione, he deserves it. The editors of the Boston Herald demur:
The death penalty should be off the table for Luigi Mangione, accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And not for any reason sympathetic to Mangione.
Attaching the death penalty to Mangione’s trial would only make a martyr out of an accused killer who has already inspired zealous support among legions of fans.
Tell me what you think of this sort of moral reasoning. I don't have time to weigh in, or to lay out my arguments for the death penalty in general or for Mangione's execution in particular. But I do have one Substack article on the topic that may be of interest: Fetal Rights and the Death Penalty: Consistent or Inconsistent?
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