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A proper sentence.
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I agree. State-sponsored methodical homicide is only the continuation of violence. He’ll never leave prison, and that should be enough.
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Good. Death would have been to kind. He’s a young man and his life is done. He’ll grow old in a world that put him in a box and forgot him.
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I don’t believe in the death penalty. Ever. So I am glad this young man will not be executed. It seems paradoxical, however, for a jury to reject insanity when determining guilt or innocence but then invoke it when meting out the sentence.
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Death in prison should be the term for the sentence. He will die there after too many years to even contemplate.
If he’s lucky, he truly is crazed and out of his mind because the reality of decades upon decades of no freedom and nothing but awful prison life is so harsh that I don’t know how anyone accepts it. He should be begging for merciful death.
The legal definition of insanity has nothing to do with psychosis. It’s a crock, really, designed to exclude its use by truly mentally ill defendants.
Check out the M’Na[u]ghten Rule. (You see it spelled both ways. The guy it was named after had no u in his name, IIRC.)
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As long as people like him have ready access to guns, the NRA is fine with any outcome.
That’s what drove him nuts - people couldn’t spell his name.
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Will he become a prison celebrity now like Manson?
No. Where it has been observed that Manson had what could be described as charisma and developed a cult of personality, this fiend has no aspects of personality that would draw others to him. And, the anti-psychotic medications he’s on (and will be forever) will keep him dialed-down low, docile and manageable.
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