Death Penalty Hypocrisy

Juxtapose these two men, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall and Ronald Smith, and ask yourself why our government might discriminate between the two.  The media and our bureaucratic betters tell us the Conservatives are bad to pick and choose whom to expend valuable political and monetary treasure on.  Even the courts tell us we must support all Canadians on death row.  The first is going to be executed as a spy by a regime notorious for unjust convictions and politically motivated executions while the second is an admitted multiple murderer who killed to see what it was like.  Now why on earth we would want to pick and choose between those two?