On air: Do you waive your right to compassion when you commit a crime ?
| 17:00 UK time, Friday, 20 August 2010
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 20 August 2010. .
The UK government has urged Libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, the man who wasas he was dying of cancer.
Reports from Tripoli suggest he could now live for another SEVEN years.
Many of the relatives of the 270 victims of the bombing are angry that he was released and say that as a mass murderer, he should have spent the rest of his life in jail.
blogger says :
"Of course he doesn't deserve to be released back to his family, I'm not saying that, after what he did he certainly could never deserve that. Doesn't mean we shouldn't care about him and show him compassion though.
So is it true that if you commit a serious crime, you don't deserve compassion?
