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It's interesting listening to interviews this week on the BBC with American and Scots family members.
The Americans generally think he is evil and should die in a cell
The Scots generally think he was involved in a larger plot, without nececerrily knowing what he was part of, and that the real murderous culprits got away.
The media coverage in the UK has reflected on the fact that he was convicted after being picked out by a man who originally said he'd seen an old, tall man, when he was young and short. Even if the witness was right, all that proves is that he bought a shirt that ended up TWO FLIGHTS LATER in the hold of the Pan Am flight.
There was no evidence produced that he ever put anything on the plane or it's feeder himself.
The prevailing attitude in the UK is that he deserves Christian compassion, and the dignity in death that his plot denied its victims.
The prevailing attitude in the US seems to be (based on UK news reports) that he deserves a horrible painful death with no chance to see his family or visit his homeland.
In general I think this shows that as countries we are more different than many of us like to admit.
My own view is that he is going to die in pain, and he might as well go home to do it; Baraka said it more eloquently than I can.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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