The Lockerbie Bomber is Dead

StriderX said:
The truth still alludes us, you would think that there would be at least some answers after the dictatorship fell.
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a) What on earth gives you the idea that the CIA want us to have any answers :confused:
b) What on earth gives you the idea that the answers are to be found in Libya :confused:
c) Most literate people would have used the word "eludes" :p
 
Ricochet J said:
Should he have been released on compassionate grounds?
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Yes, and he shouldn't have been forced to drop his appeal against conviction as a condition of his release. The key evidence against him was a witness who wasn't sure of the particulars and stood to gain (and did) a $2m reward for helping to get the conviction.
 
If he was truly guilty of the Lockerbie bombings and the murder of hundreds of innocents, and not just some patsy offered up by Ghaddafi to appease the west and normalize relations, then Megrahi should have died in his cell or a prison infirmary in my opinion.
 
The Funktopus said:
Megrahi should have died in his cell or a prison infirmary in my opinion.
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That sentiment is foul.

He was released because it's the way Scots Law is done. He was tried and imprisoned under Scots Law for a crime he committed in Scotland. That's why he was given compassionate release because that's what Scots Law does.
 
The Funktopus said:
If he was truly guilty of the Lockerbie bombings and the murder of hundreds of innocents...
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He wasn't. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission had granted him a second appeal, which was under-way when he was released.

Anyone familiar with the CCRC and its sister organisations can tell you that they are very reluctant to permit second appeals and the vast majority of such appeals (75%+ in England) end with the conviction being quashed. He was stitched up by Gaddafi, the CIA and the Scottish judiciary.
 
The Funktopus said:
In my opinion it isn't, in yours it is. A funny thing subjectivity eh?
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There's two reasons why you're wrong. You did of course say if he's guilty, so we'll assume he is.

Scots law says he should have been released. You do not retrospectively change laws unless you're in some kind of tinpot dictatorship.

What would be gained by having him die of cancer in his cell? I don't know if you've seen someone die of cancer, but it's very unpleasant and I don't care who it was, I think we should be doing what we can for them. The bloodthirsty screaming families of the victims in America should have (and had no) say in what happened to him - although I do empathise with them. Surely you don't think a suitable sentence for someone is to have them die in a foreign country separated from their family? We sentence people as a deterrent - their loss of liberty is the punishment for a crime.
 
The Halk said:
There's two reasons why you're wrong. You did of course say if he's guilty, so we'll assume he is.

Scots law says he should have been released. You do not retrospectively change laws unless you're in some kind of tinpot dictatorship.

What would be gained by having him die of cancer in his cell? I don't know if you've seen someone die of cancer, but it's very unpleasant and I don't care who it was, I think we should be doing what we can for them. The bloodthirsty screaming families of the victims in America should have (and had no) say in what happened to him - although I do empathise with them. Surely you don't think a suitable sentence for someone is to have them die in a foreign country separated from their family? We sentence people as a deterrent - their loss of liberty is the punishment for a crime.
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I never offered an opinion on the legality of the decision, just my view that given the magnitude of his crimes, the deliberate targeting and mass murder of innocent civilians, that Megrahi should never have been released.

And yes, I was unfortunate enough to watch my father die in agony from lymphoma three years ago, so I am painfully aware of what it is to watch someone die that way.
 
philip2009 said:
Then perhaps, almost three long years later, Scots law is an ass ...
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Scots Law isn't a doctors prognosis... and that prognosis was based on treatment provided in a Scots prison. Not expensive American made wonder drugs provided to him in Libya by the then Regime.
 
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My thinking would be if he was guilty and knew he had a very short time to live that he'd finally give everyone the finger, but he proclaimed it to his death that he was innocent.
 
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