Any lawyer who uses this kind of bullshit sentimentalist rhetoric – "Seifert’s young son, Benjamin, now 2 years old, will never know his father, Mulligan said. At Christmas and Thanksgiving, there will always be one empty place at the table, he said" – should be instantly deported to Iraq, where they should be pelted with grenades by demented soldiers.

Also, countries where they sentence the mentally ill to death are not particularly civilised places.