WTF?: The Death Penalty 2

To view more evidence of the acrobatics performed by some conservatives on the death penalty one only needs to read Alan Howe in today's Herald Sun:

'Unless the Indonesian Government wavers, marksmen will, one morning soon, dispatch Bali bombers Imam Samudra, Ali Ghufron and the giggling Amrozi to meet the many virgins that are theirs by Koranic promise.'

'I have opposed the death penalty previously, but this is different. Indonesia is an unsettled democracy in which there is a resentful Islamic push for it to become a theocracy.
Should that happen, a living Bali bomber would likely be liberated, hailed a hero and doubtless given some senior official post in which they would set to work on murdering more of us.
The three of them need to be killed.'

So Howe's reasons for wishing the death penalty on the Bali bombers are different. He believes it likely that an Islamic theocracy will spring up in Indonesia and thus these criminals will be given an official post, Ministers for the Killing of Infidels maybe.

After spending the last two weeks there talking to locals and reading much of the media this suggestion strikes me as hilarious. Exactly how did Howe come up with this pathetic appraisal? It seems to me that his lust for their deaths warranted an excuse considering he's previously opposed capital punishment, and this is the best he can come up with. Rather than outwardly state that he is now pro-death penalty he prefers to amend his position to accommodate his call for their killing. It's just weak.

You're pro-capital punishment Alan, just say so.