Posted on 10/13/2022 1:37:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
I am fine with the death penalty in general, but it doesn’t bring back any victims, and it takes so long for us to do it that the deterrent effect is dampened to nearly being non-existent.
In this case, if he had been strung up publicly within a week of the event, people would take notice, and might think twice before committing such acts. Since we don’t do that, I don’t really see that much of a distinction between the life sentence or the death penalty for Cruz.
Here is a question, WHAT IF....yes what if, some group let it be known to the inmate population that we’d be extremely grateful if this murderer were to die in prison. And that their commissary account would have a couple of thousand in it.
Would that be prosecutable?
The article's pathetic writer doesn't specify--which ought to be its central point, and no lower than its second paragraph.
My observations. The hate for Assault Rifles was unanimous in all the victims families. So this is a crisis they are going to exploit as the gun’s fault. But in the bigger picture the subliminal brainwashing that all these shootings have been “the gun’s fault” may have been the jury’s Achilles heel with the decision.
The subconscious “fault of the gun” may have influenced and mentally took priority over the fault of the shooter. And why they did not give him death. In their subconscious minds it was not 100% “all” his fault, most was the gun’s fault because that is how they have been brainwashed to think...
In this case she is bound.
I could.
God established the death penalty for a number of crimes, murder being the chief one.
If God decreed it, the justice needs to be served and His Laws obeyed.
I believe the jury’s verdict is final.
Exactly who should be executed, if not Cruz? Allowing monsters like this to live is one more stake in the heart of civilization. For me, these soft jurors punished the families one final time.
What’s the difference? People sentenced to death seem to live out their lives on appeals and delays anyway.
He deserves public hanging.....
The system is sick, poisoned by the left. The elongated process in death penalty cases is only a reason to shorten it. I would execute this sub-human tomorrow.
The fear factor of being put to death and knowing the date certain is enough of a deterrent to other would be killers to make it worth societies while to carry it out.
It’s always been a penalty AND a deterrent, as it should be.
Got me but I’m thinking about Dahmer on Netflix...perhaps it will inspire a prisoner or two. I feel pretty confident that the prisoners will stomp this little wuss into dust.
I’m for the death penalty except…you couldn’t kill the person dead enough to assuage my anger if a loved one was killed or badly harmed. To do that, you would have to revive and kill them over and over…
So a sentence of life without parole makes the prisoner “suffer” over an extended period of time except…do they really suffer?
Given reports from inside prison, yes and no. However, if the conditions of imprisonment were so hellish that the inmates were applying to be executed, then life without the possibility of parole would probably provide satisfaction to the families that fitting punishment was being applied.
Thanks.
You’re welcome.
I may be incorrect but, if he is sentenced to death that would preclude his release, which is not assured with “life without parole.”
He will have to be in a prison somewhere. There are plenty of inmates who could be encouraged to see that justice is done.
AS long as he is alive there is a chance the perp will become the client of attention seeking, bleeding heart attorneys looking to make a name for themselves by scheming some way-out theory on why the poor black boy was not guilty. All it takes is a “progressive” judge.
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