Then I read Cullen’s next line: “And in that moment, the contrast between Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his victims could not have been starker. His victims responding to an appalling act of inhumanity with a simple moment of humanity.”
All I could think and feel when I read that line was: How can we witness this moment and think that killing Tsarnaev is the right way to respond? What Tsarnaev did was without question inhuman. But he is a human being. And we sacrifice the very humanity that we so deeply cherish if we decide to take yet another human life in the name of revenge.