Poll of the Day > Parkland Shooter gets Life From Jury ...

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If he did it yes. Anything less for that would probably not be appropriate.

no, why take a life away to show killing is wrong.

have him tour the country and bring awareness to mental health. Rehabilitate him

ban guns too except for law enforcement

Why is that part there?

Why is that part there?

Why is that part there?

Anyway, he should have been put to death.
There is no value in keeping him alive. He will never be redeemed or reformed for what he's done. He is simply too dangerous and should be put down like the animal he is.

Because I know nothing about the case and thus answering the question: Is Life in prison appropriate punishment for killing 17 people?

Capital punishment is savagery that should have been relegated to the past ages ago. That some "civilised" countries still uphold it fills me with great shame and disgust.

I was under the impression the question was only about the validity of the punishment, not the validity of the judgement.

I don't know why you brought such a nonpoint into thw mix.

Imprisonment until death is literally a slower, more cruel death penalty. Especially so for him because he won't be in genpop.

it's to eliminate people are legitimate threats to society and can never be reformed.

If he's in jail, is he a legitimate threat to society?

He could be a threat to other prisoners since he has a propensity for mass murder

He could be a threat to other prisoners since he has a propensity for mass murder

If he's in jail, is he a legitimate threat to society?

A threat which can be mitigated without killing him, I would imagine.

He deserved not only the death penalty but a slow tortureous death.

Also, you don't just stop being a threat to everyone around you because you go to prison. What if he gets the upper hand on someone and kills them in jail? Whoops I guess?

What if he gets the upper hand on someone and kills them in jail?

.. you can literally say this about almost every criminal though.

ever heard of deterrence?

Yes. People in jail are still people and they aren't all mass murdering lunatics.

Also, you don't just stop being a threat to everyone around you because you go to prison. What if he gets the upper hand on someone and kills them in jail? Whoops I guess?

He could be a threat to other prisoners since he has a propensity for mass murder

Okay?

Waste of tax payers dollars.

if they know that only a shameful death awaits them for shooting up a school instead of lifelong infamy, maybe they'll stop and think, maybe there is a better way out.

I don't think there's a single person who plans and executes a mass shooting like this that expects to actually survive it. Giving any number of them the death penalty wouldn't deter much of anything. If anything, a sizable percentage are a form of deliberate suicide by cop, so executing them as a matter of regular practice would act as entirely the opposite of a deterrent.

The death penalty almost invariably costs more than a life sentence.

I could get it done for about $0.30

In cases like this where there's such overwhelming evidence, so much so that an appeal is pretty much pointless, just take him out behind the courthouse and dome him. The government already wastes enough of my money. I don't need upkeep fees for a lowlife added to the pile.

ever heard of deterrence?

killing this scum and making an example of him might prevent more. Even if there is the possibility of it preventing one more shootings isnt it worth it?

this piece of crap stole the ultimate freedom from those kids. Actual kids. He stole the freedom of life. Not a hypothetical life an actual factual real life.

why should he keep his and continue to enjoy that simple freedom that he denied so many?

and of ending his worthless life makes some other lunatic think twice that is a benefit to society as a whole.

there are borderline cases that the death penalty should not apply. Or cases where its application is racially biased. This is not one of them by any means.

You may as well get rid of the death penalty

Indeed, outside of instances where somebody continues to be a significant threat to the public even from jail.

It has a therapeutic benefit to the victims, since it gives them closure.

What benefit is there to society by paying for his prison sentence for the rest of his life?

And the therapeutic benefits are a boon to society.

Id say let the parents of the Deceased children take a vote and decide on life in prison vs death

Because if there's one group that can be trusted to make impartial decisions about what's best for society, it's the immediate victims of the crime in question.

Why not? They were impacted and have to live with the decision. The rest of us go on about our business until it happens to us