girecole: All Comments

Leaving aside the question of whether or not there is reason to question Meghrahi's guilt, I want to comment as one who has been associated with a hospice program, as a volunteer and as a manager, for 10 years.

Every dying person should be treated with compassion, in a non-judgmental way. In this case, there were alternatives to release that would have extended compassion. Comfort care, with pain control, would have been in order (it should go without saying) and perhaps attendance at the prisoner's death by one or more of his family members. Compassion did not demand release.