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No, you are projecting your own opinion here. I've commended him for turning away from his wrong path while condemning him for his actions individually that have destroyed lives through the same exact suffering he experienced. I offered no advice.
The worldwide death penalty you're endorsing still kills him at 19, so you're commending a redemption your own proposal would have prevented.
You dont care that a drug traffiker kills/destroys countless lives?

Why not apply the same empathy for terrorists? Maybe they can turn their life around too.

A 14-year-old addict reselling Adderall to classmates to feed his own habit isn't a 'trafficker' who 'destroyed countless lives'
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