I'm actually unhappy about this. No, not because I don't think he "deserves to die" in some sense... the crime he committed was terrible enough for sure. It's just that I don't believe the State should be in the business of killing people. Period.
If you believe, as I do, that the State exists only as the collective extension to our innate right to self defense, then clearly the State has the right to intervene to protect the people from a killer like Tsarnaev. But since that end could be accomplished without killing him, I consider the actual killing to be an invalid use of force.
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