Should terrorists be given death penalty or not?Give reasons in support of your answer.?
It is a fact that the death penalty is more costly than locking someone up for even the rest of his life. This is since in the case of the death penalty legal procedures are especially costly, once you execute someone you cannot undo it. It is pretty unclear whether death will deter terrorists, many of whom die for their cause anyways, like the 9/11 hijackers. Having terrorists alive and in prison does not give them a heroic/martyr status but shows that the US as a civilization is above their primitive logic. Also terrorists, like other killers, often grow wiser as they grow older. They may come to regret their actions and actually call upon others from prison to stop doing the same they did. Germany for example never executed any of its Red Army Faction terrorists that hijacked Lufthansa planes and killed politicians starting in the 1970s. Most of the surviving terrorists by now have given up violence and publicly rejected it. The Red Army Faction dissolved itself in the nineties. Man
