Compassionate Release?

This morning as I was drinking my usual two cups of coffee and trying to pry my eyelids open, I was treated to a news story on Fox News about the potential release of Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi. Who is this some of you might be thinking? Is he some Taliban fighter we captured in Afghanistan? A leader of Al Queda in Iraq? The answer is no!
This particular person is the lone person tried and convicted for the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Oh....THAT guy you are now saying and nodding your head as it all floods back into your memory!!! Well, THAT guy was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to life in prison for his role in that extremely tragic terrorist incident. But just as here in the United States, "life in prison" doesn't really mean that anymore. In this case, Scottish officials are considering the early release of this unrepentent terrorist on "compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill with cancer". (Please excuse me while I get a kleenex to dry my eyes......I am so sad for him.......NOT!)
Now I don't know about you but I find this very disturbing. Here is a guy who was involved in planting a bomb on-board a jet that blew up and killed 270 people in a very gruesome way. He showed absolutely NO compassion for any of the victims of this bombing and I have never read anywhere that he has shown any remorse for his actions. He has caused incredible grief and sadness in the lives of the families and friends of the victims and again.....to the best of my knowledge has never shown any remorse. So why should HE be shown any compassion?
This criminal was tried and convicted for his crimes. He was sentenced to "life in prison", although I personally feel the death penalty would have been much more appropriate in this case. (Does Scotland have the death penalty?) You know, an ounce of lead applied gently to the back of the head at the cost of about 2 cents or so. But Scotland, like here in the US, has compassion for criminals. After all, they are people too right?
In my thought process, when someone is convicted of such a heinous crime and is sentenced to "life in prison", that is EXACTLY what he or she should get......LIFE IN PRISON! That means they don't get time off for good behavior, they don't get to write children's books, beg for clemency, have over-paid celebrities plead their worthless case on TV and they certainly don't get out because they have cancer!!! That means he should stay in prison and live out the rest of his miserable days behind the walls and bars of the penal institution unlucky enough to be sharing the air with him while the cancer eats away at him. That means he STAYS there until such time as Allah draws his number and beckons him to come home and recieve his 30 virgins or whatever his "reward" is supposed to be.
Unfortunately, it appears that Scotland is afflicted with the strange disease called "misplaced compassion" as are many places and people here in the US. And to be truthful, I feel really sorry for them because of it. I also feel angry that they would even consider the release of this animal because the innocent victims of Flight 103 never got to fulfill and finish their own lives because of the misguided, sadistic actions of this twisted felon. They had their futures blown away from them in a violent blast while their families, friends and the world were left to grieve, think about what might have been and remember.
Compassionate release??? I don't think so.