So the lone survivor has been sentenced to death. I feel giving Kasab the death sentence is the easiest way out for all involved, including Kasab himself (he gets his virgins, the only doubt I have is, what if they are all virgin guys waiting for him). Handing out the death sentence is where I feel, justice lacks foresight. Will hanging Kasab deter other Kasabs from following his path? I am sure, the day he is hanged; the LET will conduct a recruiting drive hailing Kasab as a fallen martyr for their cause or jihad whatever hell they use to define massacres. People in that part of the world are a deprived lot. If you wave a bag of rice infront of them they would kill whomever you ask. I don’t think they kill for the cause of Islam, I think they kill so that they can live better, their family can live better.

I would suggest, that we let him live in the prison: life sentence. Let’s see if he can be taught dignity, lets see if he feels any remorse, let him face the victims of his massacre. And then lets see if he changes, lets see if learns to respect human life. Let’s educate him and let’s see if he chooses to live a civilized life. If not, throw him in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Let him face his conscious everyday, let him imagine everyday how his life could have been.

I know I may sound too naïve. I would probably be slapped by the people who have lost their dear ones on that fateful night. But let me also say that no matter how much we sympathize with the victims, we can never feel their loss the same as they. So I stand aside, and I pen this, my viewpoint, not biased by personal loss. I do not believe that hanging Kasab will deter another 26/11. Let believe that the death sentence in this case is a joke; it’s an easy way out. I refuse to believe that a terrorist has ever stopped from committing crime with the thought that, ‘Oh wait, let me not do this, I don’t want to be hanged for this’.

Though our society has progressed so much, technologically and socially, I think it’s a shame that we haven’t come up with an alternative to the death sentence.

I think real justice will be done if one day we manage to get Kasab to stand up to a mike, and say that he repents what he did, apologizes to the victims and advices the others like him that his way of life is really not worth anything.