[quote]Varqanir wrote:
For my part, I’m almost wishing that the two goblins were nominally Muslim, and that they had committed their crimes in a country practicing Sharia law. Then at least justice would be swift and, I presume, poetic.
In my mind’s eye, I see a large, crowded public square, and a magistrate presenting Dr. William Petit with the two felons shackled to a frame. He hands the bereaved ex-father and husband a baseball bat, a can of gasoline and a box of matches, and says, “here you are, Doctor, take as much time as you like.”[/quote]
I’m thinking that Hayes with the shaved head and saffron prison jumpsuit looks like a hare krishna, but probably not.
The real point of my posts was to put some meat on the bones of the characters involved. The comment about religious affiliation was a gratuitous afterthought.