I'm not a huge fan of the death penalty in any case. I agree that Muhammad's sentencing is
probably the necessary deterrent against similar masterminding. I'm relieved, however, that they didn't level a similar sentence against Malvo. Whether he was brainwashed or not, he's
clearly not gonna do anything like that again even if he's let out early. I always thought you put down the ones that were
completely incurable (at least at the time of the sentencing
) and were going to be
persistent threats to society,
and whose crimes carried such notoriety and impacted so many that an example
must be made of them. \
Either way, Malvo's behind bars for a pretty long time. I didn't hear them name any parole stipulations, so I'm going to imagine that he'd be eligible in thirty or forty years. That's the bulk of the man's
life. I would imagine he'd either be adequately
rehabilitated or adequately
debilitated that further criminal acts would be out of the question.
