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<p>Monday&rsquo;s <cite>Telegraph</cite> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/11/wirq11.xml&amp;sSheet=/news/2005/04/11/ixnewstop.html">carries a report</a> that the Saddam loyalists in the Iraqi insurgency may be willing to give up their fight in exchange for Saddam not getting the death penalty. (&thorn;: <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/05/04/10/#telegraph--saddam_may_escape_noose_in_deal_to_halt_insurgency">memorandum</a>)</p> <p>Meanwhile, the real Olympic bomber, Eric Rudolph (not to be confused with Richard Jewell), <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/national/09rudolph.html?ex=1270699200&amp;en=c26c5bb858ff71b1&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland">avoided the death penalty</a> for his mid-90s bombing spree in Alabama and Georgia this week by revealing information, including the location of weapons caches, to federal authorities.</p> <p>Of course, if monsters like Saddam and Rudolph aren&rsquo;t going to get the death penalty (even if they deserve it&mdash;an argument that could easily be made for both men), I&rsquo;m not at all convinced that anyone else should get it&mdash;even putting my <a href="http://blog.lordsutch.com/?entryid=2537">philosophical problem</a> with the death penalty aside.</p> http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/2644 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=2644