Ah yes, Mr. Bundy.
Do you recall what he did when Ted escaped from prison? He did not even attempt to flee the country. He immediately went out and killed again, although he knew(being an attorney) he faced the death penalty, before authorities tracked him down. The possibility did not deter or embolden him. Ted Bundy just continued his murderous behavior.
IMHO sociopaths and psychopaths are so deranged (Charles Manson comes to mind) that the threat of execution for criminal behavior doesn't affect their conduct. And yes, Manson surely deserved the death penalty.
Your descriptions of "sociopaths", and, "psychopaths", though true, fails to fully illustrate their criminal behavior. I would suggest that any time they are able to manipulate and control anyone, they are "EMBOLDENED".
Obviously, executing a killer puts a "crimp" in their personal needs, being that they are dead, if I understand you correctly. But as I had said in my previous post; just and capital punishment does not deter those who are truely evil.
Right.
"Colorado police filed charges against Bundy on October 22, 1976, for the murder of Caryn Campbell."
"The authorities in Colorado were confident they could put him on trial for the murder of Caryn Campbell, the girl who was killed in Snowmass at the height of the skiing season."
"But in December 1977 Bundy escaped again - this time by cutting a hole in the ceiling of his cell with a hacksaw blade and this time he would not be caught so easily."
As I said before, the authorities dawdled, as they usually do, and Bundy escaped to kill again, because they didn't off him immediately after a quick trial.
Furthermore, I don't think lawyer Ted had much to worry about, because he undoubtedly was aware that the last execution in Colorado was in 1967. He didn't live to see the next one in Colorado - 1997.
(Of course, I will take the opportunity to point out that the dawdling wheels of the criminal justice system are gummed up deliberately by The Deliberate Stranger's fellow lawyers. Apologies to FR lawyers in advance for even mentioning them in the same post with Bundy or the anti-death penalty legal pond scum.)