Posted on 08/18/2005 2:15:48 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
'Bind, Torture and Kill' serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be 'thrown into a deep hole and left to rot.'
The sentence of a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.
The state of Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.
Earlier Rader stood in front of a courtroom filled with his victim's family members, tell the court he believes he is a Christian and he knew he would be caught for his crimes.
Instead of asking forgiveness or a lenient sentence, Rader rambled off details about his series of murders. In a bizarre moment of triumph, he ran through a list of people he wanted to think.
He also told the judge he was honest and cooperated with police after his arrest, then said 'he blew so much smoke' in telling his story that 'nobody knows fact from fiction.'
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
He needs to be in the general population of the nastiest prison we have...wherever that is. I guess that wouldn't be Gitmo, huh?
duh
No, not club Gitmo. However, we could turn him over to Zarchawi and his Al Queda co-horts.
When they make their demands, we could say "no", you keep him, we don't want him, do what you want.
They'd forthwith recruit him to the Religion of Pieces (tm)
Note to voters in his home state. You need to put a measure on the ballot making the death penalty retroactive from now on.Silliness. Even Scalia would jump at the chance of knocking that hanging curve out of the park.
Oh, so you think it's just fine the BTK is still breathing?
You're right, he'd enjoy it, fit right in with the Islamofacists, he'd probablly end up running the place
. All the more reason he should be made to assume room temperature.
There must be a pool somewhere on the date that BTK will get BTK'd.
LOL!
Can't understand why you Americans think a quick and painless death by execution is appropriate for this unsavoury character. Incarceration without any hope of release, and constant fear of much worse physical pain at the hands of other inmates, or lifelong solitary confinement, is a far worse fate. The important thing is surely that he doesn't get out again.
A cuckoo like him will probably regard prison as just another curiosity.
As long as he draws breath there's a chance he could escape and hurt someone else. I suggest you read what this "man" did. He makes Jack the Ripper look like one of the Teletubbies. He's pure evil.
I look at the death penalty the same way as I view the necessity of having to put down a mad dog. It has to be done for safety of the community.
Why anyone would want a monster like this kept alive at tax payer expense is beyond me. Why should he get to experience any pleasure at all?-Why should he get to smile, enjoy eating a meal, the sunshine, anything at all when he so brutally took that away from his victims? (Heck the BTK gets pleasure from drawing ropes and nooses on pictures in magazines. )
He's not remorseful, he's proud of himself. So he gets to eat, drink and defecate at taxpayer expense.I'd rather see him sent on to final judgment.
If it's so awful to stay alive in prison, as opposed to being executed, how come death row inmates make appeal, after appeal, after appeal, trying to stay alive?
If so, God is diminished by it.
This man should be kept alive, and his victims' families in charge of his daily activities. They should retain Clive Barker for ideas.
No evidence has come to light indicating any murders after 1986 I believe.
Sure. Just as soon as 2/3rds of the rest of you amend the Constitution to allow ex post facto laws.
Make that 3/4ths of you.
I never said that...but he won't have any chance of being "Dahmered" in solitary confinement.
As long as a lawyer draws breath, there is hope of release.
And we have to put him up for life and pay for it.
When the dead are scattered like leaves, it isn't right that he should use the same air as his victims did.
Oh, and he'll have the Carrs as neighbors, but they won't be communicating.
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