Hegseth wants Fort Hood attacker publicly executed

Retaliating in kind is sheer madness, laments Avvenire:

“The execution – as Hegseth announced with satisfaction – will take place by firing squad, in the same manner, at the same time and in the same place where the massacre occurred. A public execution (like those in North Korea, Iran …) broadcast live. … An ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’ approach in the digital age. Yet even the principle of retribution in the Bible effectively reinforced the protection of the weak and reminded the powerful that they would be punished in kind whenever they abused a poor person, their wife or their possessions. And it curbed disproportionate revenge.”