Regarding Terrorists Pleading Guilty

I read there's concern that allowing the 5 guantanamo terrorists to die by execution will be fulfilling their wish to be made martyrs.

Does it really matter? If they WANT to go, and wish to be executed, why keep them alive just to make them suffer? Our point is supposed to be that we are not like them. I question myself, how valid and fair their trial is. Does anyone who is a political prisoner in another country, with everyone paid for by that country, and making their salary from that country, get a really fair shot?

If they want to die, what is it to us? It's not that we think we're depriving them of their heaven. I think it's more that the U.S. is concerned it will inspire others to think even if they are "caught", they can be assured they will be killed, and so it's sort of like a secondary kind of suicide. Depriving these guys of death is just going to fill up jails and we'll pay for them for life.

We should almost feel sorry for them--I don't mean, sympathize, but just feel sorry for them, in that they really, truly, believe this is their ticket to heaven. They wouldn't have done some of these things if they didn't honestly believe in this. It is their religion, and although it's extreme and fanatical, it is honestly believed by them. They are not motivated by money or other things, when they want to be executed. And keeping them alive won't stomp out their military branches elsewhere--it will only be a constant reminder to the others that their leaders are in jail. Sure, they'll celebrate and praise God for the martyrdom if they die, but the way to reach the others, is to help them to see how God cares about all of humanity, not just those who agree with them religiously, and to ease their suffering even. I don't mean be friends, but people don't question fundamentalism when there is opposition to it--that only inspires and fans the flames of the most "devout" or extreme.