Because in Liberal America...values/morals are all relative.

Deliberately taking the life of five innocents isn't worth the life of one dangerous killer.

...they might have had a disturbing childhood or something...and we don't want to be insennnnnsitive now...do we?

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The Solution for Illegal Immigrants (Gray areas discussed throughout the thread)