Fox News is reporting that doctors may have been paid off to offer medical opinions that would secure the release of the convicted terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Scottish law allows for a release on compassionate grounds if the convict has less than three months to live. It has been called into question however if the Lockerbie bomber should have been given such a compassionate release.
Medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber was reportedly paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged doctors to say he only had three months to live. The life expectancy of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was crucial, The Sunday Telegraph reported, because Scottish law mandates that prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have three months or less to live. Al-Megrahi, 57, is suffering from terminal prostate cancer and was released by Scottish officials last month. He was the lone person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. The attack killed 259 people aboard the plane, most of them American, and 11 on the ground. Two of the three doctors commissioned by the Libyans provided the required three-month estimates, The Sunday Telegraph reports, while the third also indicated that the prisoner had a short time to live. That’s in contrast with findings of doctors in June and July who had concluded that al-Megrahi had up to 10 months to live, which would have blocked his release.
Dying or not, this dude should have rotted in jail. Show him the same level of compassion he showed his victims. He didnt let them die in a place of their choosing. They didnt get a chance to return home to pass peacefully in their comfortable and cozy beds. This guy should have passed in a jail cell and his body shipped home in a makeshift coffin fitting of a man who deserves little to nothing and certainly not “compassion.”
