Remember Them? Their Lives Are Sacrosanct....
"This decision to abandon our principled opposition to the death penalty is both abhorrent and shameful, and I call on ministers even at this late stage to reverse this decision."
Diane Abbott, Labour Party legislator, Parliament, London
"We should not forget that the crimes that we're talking about involve the beheading and videoing of those beheading [of] dozens of innocent people by one of the most abhorrent organizations walking this Earth."
"[The government risks] being seen as hypocrites [if it makes no exception of assurances the death penalty not be used yet itself uses lethal force to kill people in battle]."
U.K. Security Minister Ben Wallace
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| Still from Islamic State beheading video |
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has evidently conveyed to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Britain would not succumb to mass bereavement should two jihadis of British derivation infamously representing the Islamic State group be executed, were they to be placed on trial in the United States. That message between nations in official attitudes to punishment of the brutish jihadis who so obviously relished the pain and suffering they inflicted upon those they took prisoner as representatives, albeit civilian, of 'enemy states', clear enough in their shared vision of the aptness of taking a guilty life to avenge a monstrous death.
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a cell of notorious British jihadis unfondly but popularly named "the Beatles", reflecting their British accents, and responsible for the unspeakably barbaric handling of hostages taken by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant whose showmanship was unparalleled for its extreme malicious cruelty. The best known and most atrocious of the quartet was known as "Jihadi John" for whom punishment for his failure to adopt the mantle of humanity was death by drone strike in 2015.
In that year and the one previous, the world's attention was focused with horror on the dreadful plight of over twenty Western hostages in Syria whom the group tortured before dispatching them in great videoed shows of merciless atrocities. Seven Americans were beheaded along with British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. And nor were members of the Syrian military spared, all fodder for the group to gloat and boast of their butchery through the slick production of their grisly videos loaded onto the Internet for all to shudder at.
Britain, according to a news report out of the Daily Telegraph, had no intention of seeking "assurances" the two jihadis would not face execution despite Britain's opposition to the death penalty leading to Britain refusing to send prisoners to those countries which prosecute them for their crimes committed there, where punishment of those crimes could result in execution. The issue is the provision by Britain of incriminating information to be used in a future prosecution in the U.S. against the two gruesome murderers.
Labels: Britain, Death Penalty, ISIL, Jihadis, United States
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, July 25, 2018
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