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Judge accepts theater shooting suspect's insanity plea

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Atomic Playboy said:
How will killing him help anything? The damage has already been done. If he's deemed insane, he'll be under lock and key for the rest of his life. If he's not deemed insane and stands trial, he'll be under lock and key for the rest of his life. No matter what punishment is meted out, it won't bring back the dead.
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You realize that your tax dollars will pay to keep this POS alive. He'll get 3 meals a day, 1 hour of rec each day, a shower, visits from friends and family once a week, along with health and dental care. All paid for by the fine residents of Colorado. Those are tax dollars that could help build a school, buy books, etc.

What killing this POS will do is provide justice and the freeing up of tax dollars.
 
ViperXX said:
You realize that your tax dollars will pay to keep this POS alive. He'll get 3 meals a day, 1 hour of rec each day, a shower, visits from friends and family once a week, along with health and dental care. All paid for by the fine residents of Colorado. Those are tax dollars that could help build a school, buy books, etc.

What killing this POS will do is provide justice and the freeing up of tax dollars.
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We could do the same by killing all the disabled and poor people too!
 
ViperXX said:
You realize that your tax dollars will pay to keep this POS alive. He'll get 3 meals a day, 1 hour of rec each day, a shower, visits from friends and family once a week, along with health and dental care. All paid for by the fine residents of Colorado. Those are tax dollars that could help build a school, buy books, etc.

What killing this POS will do is provide justice and the freeing up of tax dollars.
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I can't believe the sheer number of people who think the death penalty is a cheaper option than life sentences.
 
ViperXX said:
You realize that your tax dollars will pay to keep this POS alive. He'll get 3 meals a day, 1 hour of rec each day, a shower, visits from friends and family once a week, along with health and dental care. All paid for by the fine residents of Colorado. Those are tax dollars that could help build a school, buy books, etc.

What killing this POS will do is provide justice and the freeing up of tax dollars.
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No dodging the tax bullet: the death penalty appeals process is very long and exceedingly expensive. Often more so than life in prison.
 
I recall reading that the dude actually visited the theatre like a month before the shooting and took photographs of the layout on his cell phone.

So this isn't like some sleepwalking thing. Dude intentionally by his own volition chose to kill.

Seriously, for guys like him and the rest, I'd be okay with a simple execution a week later.
 
Howard said:
I can't believe the sheer number of people who think the death penalty is a cheaper option than life sentences.
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ONly because of the appeals. If the appeals process could be streamlined, it's cheaper.

There is no doubt in my mind, none at all, that James Holmes is guilty of what he is accused of.
 
ElFenix said:
yeah fuck that due process and laws and shit.



well, yeah it pretty much does. though he'd spend the rest of his life locked up in an asylum instead. which the system views as not jail and not punishment. to someone on the inside, is it that different? probably not.
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My mom worked in a state mental hospital for the criminally insane for a bit. It's not as bad as prison, but it's still pretty horrible to live out the rest of your life in a place like that.
 
I'm all for allowing him to live. Except the families of the those who died get to come in once a week and punch him in the babymaker.....
 
Not sure why we're wasting the money on a trial. Is anyone iffy of whether or not he did it. Insane or not, just end his life.
 
desura said:
I recall reading that the dude actually visited the theatre like a month before the shooting and took photographs of the layout on his cell phone.

So this isn't like some sleepwalking thing. Dude intentionally by his own volition chose to kill.

Seriously, for guys like him and the rest, I'd be okay with a simple execution a week later.
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Insanity and premeditation have nothing to do with each other.

You can be certifiably insane and still plan and carry out things.
 
preslove said:
My mom worked in a state mental hospital for the criminally insane for a bit. It's not as bad as prison, but it's still pretty horrible to live out the rest of your life in a place like that.
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Thats highly dependent on the state.

It also depends on how medicated a person is.
 
Howard said:
I can't believe the sheer number of people who think the death penalty is a cheaper option than life sentences.
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They take pride in being ignorant, regard howling for blood as a spiritual & enlightening experience.

When confronted with the necessary reality of our justice system, they just head for the denial of "bullets are cheap", as if they really want that to become reality. Maybe they do- they're exceedingly stupid.
 
So long as he's behind bars, with no chance of parole, I'll be satisfied. Would prefer to see the fucker executed by firing squad on live television, but I'll settle for bars. Either steel or padded.
 
ViperXX said:
You realize that your tax dollars will pay to keep this POS alive. He'll get 3 meals a day, 1 hour of rec each day, a shower, visits from friends and family once a week, along with health and dental care. All paid for by the fine residents of Colorado. Those are tax dollars that could help build a school, buy books, etc.

What killing this POS will do is provide justice and the freeing up of tax dollars.
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Killing him would cost more. It's more expensive to execute someone than to house them for life
 
Assholes like this fucker still deserve a full and vigorous defense. As soon as we start picking and choosing who that applies to we really start down a dark alley when it comes to civil liberties in this country.
 
dabuddha said:
fucking bullshit. I'm sure Tsarnaev will do the same. That's whats wrong with our country.
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He seems pretty insane to me. The fact nobody in this thread can really conceive of doing what he did (I hope) is because none of us are insane. It seems so ghastly and unconscionable to us because we are not nutty, so why is it that he was able to do it? How could he fire upon a crowd of people killing so many? Because he's fucking nuts. If this isn't evidence of it I don't know what is.

At the end of the day, I'm strictly against capital punishment at all times anyway, so whether the guy is legally sane and spends life in prison (as he would) or deemed nutty as shit, insane as hell, and spends life in a mental prison it doesn't matter to me. He'll never be a free man, never ever, anyway.
 
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