The Green River Killer - does he deserve to live?

Quote from Rearden Metal:

Hey, executing this maniac is just fine by me.
But seriously, if YOU were given the choice between a quick death or life in prison, what would YOU choose?

My answer is the same as my favorite comic, Chris Rock:

HBO: When a new prisoner comes in, how do you initiate him?
INMATE: The first thing I do is make him toss my salad
HBO: Toss your salad? What's that?
INMATE: Havin' your salad tossed means havin' your asshole eaten out with jelly or syrup. I prefer syrup.
I am not making this up.
HBO: Wh-wh-why must you go through all that, sir? Why not just oral sex?
INMATE: Well, when a man's sucking your dick, he can pretend it's something else. When he's eating ass he <b>knows</b> it's ass.

We don't need the death penalty. We've got the tossed salad man. If I had the choice between the electric chair and the tossed salad man I'd be like, "where do you plug it in? shouldn't I be wet first?"

Like everything else, prison life is systematic of the kindler and gentler society. Yea occasionally a Dahmer gets his due behind bars, but generally inmates, especially the notorious, are pretty well protected. Several years ago Chicago's infamous nurse killer, Richard Speck, was shown on video shortly before his death from natural causes, ingesting massive quantities of cocaine while partying with another killer in his cell. Naturally Chicagoans were not amused. Hardly the spartan life of the condemned.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Typically the prosecutors will accept a guilty plea in exchange for life. From their standpoint it makes a lot of sense: they get it over with, there are not endless appeals, the victim's families are spared the ordeal of a trial, there is no risk of a scewup at trial and the defendant walking somehow, and in this case I believe he gave them details of many killings they might not even have been aware of. On the other side, if you don't execute this guy, who will you ever execute?

The prosecutors in the DC sniper cases have obviously made the same calculus and come down with a different answer.

It's easier AAA for prosecutors to seek death for a serial killer than a single homicide. Typically the prosecution will try cases separately. That way if a killer beats the rap on indictment #1 there are still multiple charges to follow. Surely one or more of these cases will yield enough conclusive evidence to warrant capital punishment.
 
7 no votes and 5 yes.

WTF???

If anyone deserves the death penalty, its THIS GUY.

Instead, he gets to enslave the tax payers for $50K
a year to dress, house, and feed his ass??!?!?!

What has this world come to?

Give me the gun, ill pop him in both knees, THEN the head,
and ill only take 25K a year for the rest of his statistical life span. :D

You would think the bleeding hearts would WANT to kill this
bastard and use that $50K/year for some homeless people,
or education, or something WORTH WHILE :confused:

Apparently, it costs so much more to get the death penalty
in legal/court costs, that $50k/year ends up being cheaper.

THANKS AGAIN YOU ATTORNEY BASTARDS!!! :mad:


peace

axeman
 
I'm a conservative who is actually against the death penalty.....a combination of religious beliefs ( sorry Axe :D ) and the belief that if you are wealthy enough ( ie. Oj, Kennedy, ) or have a big time attorney ( Garragos, black, baily, Cochrane) you not only do not have to die...you don't even have to go to jail....look at robert blake....Kobe Bryant...peterson....do you think any of those guys will spend a day in jail???....look at Michael Jackson's surrender....if it was me, id' be dragged off the nice white plane by 10 cops with foot prints on my face....jacko was allowed to decide when , where , how, ect....
 
Quote from marketsurfer:

this dude will be given hell in prison. them prison boys dont like no lady killers. it will be a fate worse than death......

best,

surfer

Somehow I doubt that very much. There is the remote possibility he may share the same fate as Dahmer, but as was pointed out earlier, these serial killers are usually segregated from the general population. Prison officials do not want a repeat of the Dahmer event, and the Green River Killer is a high-profile target for any prisoner who wants to make a rep for himself, like the guy who iced Dahmer.
 
Quote from ARogueTrader:

Another capital punishment thread.

Will anyone think differently on this one than all the others?
Perhaps as differently as they do on your various threads regarding Iraq, Bush, and Rush Limbaugh. :D
 
Quote from ARogueTrader:

Another capital punishment thread.

Will anyone think differently on this one than all the others?

Rogue: When legalities favor your viewpoint, i.e. Roe vs. Wade, or Bush vs. the U.N., you're the first triumphing the rule of law as civilized man's salvation. When the courts or two century old constitutional rights/rulings hold beliefs counter to yours, such as 2nd amendment rights or capital punishment, then you seem to regard law as a barbaric barometer of a tyrannical majority.

It's fine to agree/disagree with various laws. But when your arguments so often hinge on your trumpeting a law that fits your position and pooh poohing laws that you deem archaic, it makes your reasoning based on legal posturing seem both self serving and duplicitous.
 
BTW: Because of your stated and seemingly demonstrated faith in God, I do have a measure of respect for the humanity behind your arguments. Also I feel your tag line about Jesus' heart bleeding for the poor is a most thoughtful, beautiful reminder. God bless.
 
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