I'm for ramping up the death penalty. Why take care of scum of the earth for life. **** that. I'd clear out death row in a week. The absolutes whom you know are 100% guilty would all be shot at dawn. They'd get a good breakfast and then a bullet. Much more than many of the victims of some of these dirty evil *****.
The absolutes:
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 for killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. An absolute - should be dead already. No mistake - bunches of witnesses. 8 years later still alive.
James Eagan Holmes is an American convicted on 24 counts of murder and 140 counts of attempted murder for the 2012 Aurora shooting that killed 12 people and injured 70 others. Found gulty in July 2014. An absolute - should be dead already. No mistake - bunches of witnesses. 5 years later still alive.
On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area. Six people died, including a nine-year-old girl. Jared Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years in prison without parole. An absolute - should be dead already. No mistake - bunches of witnesses. Don't care if he's crazy or not - can't be rehabilitated and who is going to miss him??? 6 years later still alive.
Why does the death sentence not work or deter people - crap like this. I will get a bunch of appeals (even though I am without a doubt, guilty). I am incompetent to stand trial - I can kill bunces of people and say I'm crazy - even though I took the time and effort to plan the whole thing.
In order for a punishment to have a deterrent effect, it must be:
Swift - Offenders need to associate the punishment with the violation of the law, so the punishment must occur within a short time after the offense is committed. (not 20 years later - even though you are, without a doubt, guilty)
Certain - Offenders must believe that if they are caught, there is no way to avoid the punishment (If an absolute, see examples above, you will die within a week of your apprehension. Get your will in order, have a last meal.) Oh, and i hook up my good old 5.0 'stang to a hose that goes into a sealed room you are strapped in to a gurney - you 'go to sleep' and die by carbon monoxide poisoning - nothing cruel and unusual - no bad mixture of drugs, no electric chair that goes bad, etc.)
Severe - The punishment must be serious enough to outweigh any pleasure or reward the offender will receive from committing the crime. (Death - about as serious as you can get)