圣战杀手尼达尔·哈桑值得他未来的地狱之旅，但在他到达那里之前，国防部长皮特·赫格塞思希望他在公开的行刑队前死去，供所有人观看和记录。这是个糟糕的主意，原因有很多，不仅仅是因为这会给杀手他所渴望的公开殉道。
Jihadist killer Nidal Hasan deserves his future in hell, but before he gets there Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants him to die before a firing squad open to the public for all to watch and record. This is a bad idea for many reasons, not least that it offers the killer the public martyrdom he craves.
这些专栏并不反对死刑。对于某些谋杀案，死刑表明社会足够重视自身保存，以施加报复性正义。哈桑先生在2009年于福特胡德以伊斯兰之名杀害了13人，造成32人受伤。
These columns don’t oppose the death penalty. For some murders, it shows that a society is serious enough about its self-preservation to deliver retributive justice. Mr. Hasan killed 13 and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood in 2009 in the name of Islam.