Alleged High School Killer Spotted Smiling and Giggling in Jail Cell

I disagree; I think he's insane and in this country we shouldn't be executing those who are insane.

 

I think that your brain being a little ****ed up is a natural consequence of killing 15 people for no reason. Regardless of how cold you are, living with having done something so evil that so completely isolates you from humanity has to mess up your sanity. He did this to himself and he deserves it, but that's what I think is happening.

 

Sick!

 

Uninformed.

 

I think back to several of the shooters, they were not sane enough to be concerned about getting the death penalty. They're not calculating on risk vs reward. It's not like they get something from their crime the way a thief does. So no, such killers will not be deterred.

 

Yes he does. He should be attended by a professional at his execution.

 

Well I am a firm advocate of the death penalty and if given free reign would apply it after review to every murderer and rapist in our prison system. That would lower the crime rate and deficit in one fell swoop.

But this is Broward County. Mega liberal.. That DA is not going to go for the death penalty. If he does that public defender is going to put that entire County on trial. The school, the Sheriff's, the mental health administration.. All of it... A full discovery of all of Broward Counties failings? His mother recently dying? Dozens of red flags?

That DA isn't going to risk that. He is going to blame the kids mental state and do the humane thing and offer life.

 

I do. And I don't want my tax money wasted on prison Psychologists. In general, as a tax payer I don't want to support the prison-industrial complex. But that is a subject for another thread addressing issues like locking up non-violent drug users etc.

 

The humane thing or the easy way out? People never fail to rationalize taking the easy way out.

 

After a would be killer watches an electrocution or two on Youtube I think some would be deterred. I was alive back in the era when criminals were executed in the electric chair and during this time period many criminals (after being apprehended) stated that they would have killed this person or that person but did not because of fear of getting "the chair." Don't think this didn't happen. It did.

 

What is sick is that people commit horrible capital crimes - are sentenced to death - and are breathing decades later.

 

Yep its all the same thing. Prosecutors/DA statement will say something like the above. He will add on that he met with the families and looked at the evidence and it's time to put this past us and heal blah blah then offer either life in prison or mental ward.

 

well he is obviously a crazy killer, but the insanity defense was not meant for people like him imo, they were meant for people that are really insane to another level and do not know what they are doing, I did not even think Andrea Yates was crazy to that level though, so I could be wrong

 

I disagree, death is the easy way out

 

Why would it be wasted? Instead of throwing away the person with the garbage, wouldn't it make sense to rehabilitate the person so he/she can become a productive member of society?

 

once a person murders, they should never be released into society again imo

 

The only mass murderers ever that I think could have a convincing innocence by insanity argument are Richard Chase and Charles Whitman. Richard Chase was so severely schizophrenic he had no ****ing clue what was going on half of the time. He stumbled around trying to enter homes until he found people that he immediately killed and ate because he thought he had to to stop his blood from dying up. Charles Whitman was unable to suppress his violent urges and wrote a note asking doctors to figure out what happened to him after he died, and it was found that he had a type of brain tumor that can cause extreme irrational aggression.

Nikolas Cruz is nothing like either of those cases. He was just a miserable person who wanted to take his aggression out in an explosive event

 

because some people executed may be innocent, and really, the public doesn't need to see that on public tv, could turn some into martyr's too

 

Someone like Cruz will never be rehabilitated.

 

Apparently the convicts sentenced to death often fail to appreciate their good fortune, other than the occasional (for example) Gary Gilmore.

Richard Speck who tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses apparently disagreed with what you say. You may recall he enjoyed prisons and made some movies showing how much he enjoyed prison sex.

 

wouldn't that force folks to protest, thereby getting some changes in laws to make sure there is a fair trial? Nothing is working well, now.

 

Very interesting. I learned some things. Thanks.

 

not after Murder... that is a line there is no coming back from, keep them in maximum security for life

 

Giving up where and for whom you work is similar. Giving up where you live, how and for how long is similar.