Kevin William Harpham bought 10 acres of land on a Stevens County hillside south of Colville and built a home a neighbor said he’d long planned. On Wednesday, dozens of federal agents converged on the property in one of the region’s largest law enforcement actions. Harpham, a 36-year-old ex-soldier with no major criminal record but ties to the white supremacist movement, was arrested on allegations he planted the backpack bomb along the planned route of the Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in downtown Spokane. He sits in the Spokane County Jail without bond and could face life in prison if convicted of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered explosive device/Thomas Clouse & Meghann M. Cuniff, SR.

Question: Is life in prison a just penalty for the individual(s) responsible for planting the bomb?