>"Too bad he didn't get the death penalty".

So "Scott", where does YOUR hatred come from?
Would you like to have killed JWL yourself, maybe skinned him and have his head mounted up somewhere in your cabin?

Do you have kids?
Do you know any sheltered 15-20 yr. olds who have no direction in life and rich parents?

He originally went to the East on a spiritual journey and became a piece of their culture.
To him it was an adventure. Over here the media paraded him around as a traitor.
JWL should have been left over there with his fate.

Our prison system is not going to make him a better person.
It's another sad story.