Scottish cardinal defends release of Lockerbie bomber
Writing in Scotland on Sunday newspaper, Cardinal Keith O’Brien said despite the “gratuitous barbarity” of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – who the Scottish Government freed last year on compassionate grounds – ministers were right “to affirm our own humanity”.
He accused the American justice system of being based on “vengeance and retribution” and said he was glad to live in a country where “justice is tempered with mercy”.
