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originally posted by: Edumakated
The sad thing is this little runt will cost the system more by appealing and delaying the execution. In a perfect world, they'd just drag him out back and double tap him after the jury read the verdict.
I don't believe in life sentences. If you did something so heinous that deserves a life sentence because you are too dangerous to be let back out in public, you deserve to die. I don't want to pay for these people to rot in prison.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Just a few hours after he told a crowded courtroom “I still feel like I had to do it,” a federal jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for carrying out a cold, calculated massacre inside Charleston's Emanuel AME Church in a bid to spark a race war.
The 12-member panel – three white jurors, nine black – deliberated for a little less than three hours before unanimously deciding that the 22-year-old white supremacist should die for his crimes rather than spend his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
It will be up to the presiding judge to formally impose that sentence, but he is bound by law to follow the jury’s decision. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel has scheduled the formal sentencing hearing for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
www.postandcourier.com... html
All I can say is, "good".
Get it done ASAP.
Fry the little bastard.
No sympathy for the stain.
Die, die, die.
originally posted by: eisegesis
Let me throw a wrench in the works...
Hypothetically speaking, if a procedure such as electroshock "therapy" could completely reformat Roof's brain, would it be worth it? A drooling zombie that could push buttons, operate simple machinery or better yet, we donate his living body to science. Should he be reprogrammed to be useful, but dead inside? There are a lot beagles and capuchins that I would love to see Roof take the place of.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
a reply to: slider1982
A death penalty sentence actually is more expensive than a life sentence in most cases.
What costs more the death penalty or life in prison?
www.nbcrightnow.com...
But as A taxpayer I have no problem with splurging on the more expensive option.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: eisegesis
Let me throw a wrench in the works...
Hypothetically speaking, if a procedure such as electroshock "therapy" could completely reformat Roof's brain, would it be worth it? A drooling zombie that could push buttons, operate simple machinery or better yet, we donate his living body to science. Should he be reprogrammed to be useful, but dead inside? There are a lot beagles and capuchins that I would love to see Roof take the place of.
Save that procedure for politicians.
Roof should be stabbed in the stomach and left on a fire ant mound in South America.
originally posted by: slapjacks
a reply to: nightbringr
Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. There are 714 inmates on California's death row.
Well this is for California, so I'm not sure how far off the numbers are.
originally posted by: slider1982
cost of death penalty v 70 odd years behind bars is a no brainer..
A execution if that is what the court has ruled for should be swift, I hate hearing about these botched executions where people take ages to die, on that note they should use a guillotine. I cannot think of a more no f#cking about method that gets the job done every time..
RA
originally posted by: ketsuko
Ok, fine. We don't torture, but we also don't execute children. Let's make sure he's not a child anymore ... the Satere Mawe way!
We have to make sure he does this 20 times in order to be a man.
Then he can be executed. It's not torture. It's a culturally sound coming of age practice.