I wonder if he would look bored if they were putting a noose around his neck or hooking him up to high voltage?
Wisconsin does not have the death penalty. Years ago, “reformers” insisted that a penitentiary was a place to be penitent, that is, the prisoner was there to just think about what it was he (or she) had done. Also, what if there
WERE some set of circumstances in which the perpetrator did NOT commit the crime, but was wrongly accused, and it was only circumstantial evidence that pointed toward that person? If once executed, then there was no possibility of redress or pardon. Or so goes their argument.
The “what if” does NOT apply with Darrell Brooks. There is plenty of eyewitness and video evidence and a whole chain of evidence that ties him DIRECTLY to the events of that day. Nothing political in that at all. So the next line of defense is that he was under great stress and in the emotion of the moment, perhaps acted out in a most extreme way. But there has been no remorse, or any kind of contrition, but only fuming, simmering anger, with no introspection at all.
Then there is the fallback defense, that he is mentally impaired, which is called upon to avoid a long prison sentence, and that with the “correct” care, he may at some time in the future, be turned loose again upon society.
But it is never the “correct” care, only a long series of reports with never a moment of “backsliding” into the storms of mental anguish that are recognized as continuing mental illness. Enough of these glowing reports of “progress” and the sentence of confinement and away from society are lifted, and the record, if not expunged, is laid to rest.
But the only rest this person is ever to know, is in the end of life.
We might just see him bawling like a baby and begging for his life. It’ll be amusing.
With a nice tuneup beforehand.