Should this savage be executed?

[R1Geezer]

http://news.sky.com/s...Murder_In_Connecticut
There is no doubt of guilt, can there be a clearer case for capital punishement? Should he spend the customary 20 years in jail first?

[youngmafbog]

There is no doubt in my mind.

20 years in a Thai/South American Jail then string him up if he is still around (unlikely)

[jake-the-peg]

No doubt of guilt eh?

Based on what exactly? 200 words of a sky news report.

I don't know why people bother with courts we could just have a news report and text in the sentence

After all the verdict's clearly a foregone conclusion

[youngmafbog]

Jake, I sometimes really dispair at you.

Did you read the newspaper cutting?

He has been found guilty. On Oct 18 they are deliberating the sentence.

[dr b]

j-t-p, there was no doubt of guilt, the killer's lawyer did not bother to try to mount a "he didn't do it" defense and spent the trial arguing that the accomplice was mostly to blame, therefore his client should get life in prison not the death sentence. News reports here in the US were a little more thorough than the article linked above.

[dr b]

not mentioned in the above article was that the killer took pictures of his dead victims on his cell phone and tried to email them to friends....

[Davethedog]

http://wikimapia.org/...Petit-Home-Crime-Site

The police caught them leaving the scene.

You do despair I vote yes my only reservation would be is its the easy way out.

[jno]

why this sudden interest in the legal process in Connecticut? Do you go looking for criminals all over the world to rave about?

[123everton]

I understand that a lot of people on death row are probably innocent because of the poor standard of their legal defence teams, I think it was Michael Moore who was talking about it.
This doesn't appear to be one of those cases, in countries within which the death penalty is available and in cases in which it applies then yes it should stand.
I watched Piers Morgan do a show on executions, what was bizarre was to see the face on an American legislator who when faced with a humane form of execution denounced it as unjust.

[Sqad]

jake....come on you seem to be in a truculent mood this week.

What´s wrong ?

[McMouse]

This is UK and we abolished capital punishment. Just another reason why I wouldn't wish to live in USA.

[anotheoldgit]

It is amazing a person such as jake-the-peg goes out of his way to defend this savage, but this time he has amazed some of his ardent supporters.

But never fear he still gets a show of concern from sqad, while jno criticises the Geezer for daring to post a piece of news, because it hasn't happened in Britain.

But this is no surprise, he even criticises home grown British news, if it is alien to his thinking.

[lumination]

why didnt the bank do anything? crazy people.
he should be put in jail then killed.

[flip_flop]

If you cup your hand to your ear, you can hear the feverish tapping of computer keys spelling out....wait for it....(you know what's coming)..."The death sentance doesn't work because there are still murders in America yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah de blah"

If the report is accurate, and let's assume for the sake of the argument it is (and given the defence didn't, it appears, mount a defence it could be safe to assume the report is accurate) then in states where the death penalty is legal, then death would appear to be a just sentence.

That said, I do not agree with the death penalty. I do, however, believe that where the crime is so heinous, as in this case, that life should most certainly mean life and that the life sentence should be served in a cold dank cell and that the food provided should be just enough to keep them alive - preferably mouldy bread and/or insect laden gruel - and they should wallow in their own excrement.

Fortunately, unlike us (and the pathetic middle aged tweed clad WI on acid middle aged fat women in the Howard League) the Americans still know that prison is, first and foremost, a punishment.

[ludwig]

If the victims had somehow managed to fight back and save their lives by inflicting some kind of injury on the criminal, Jake would probably be angrier about that. He'd be demanding stiff sentences to be dished out.

[TTG]

I agree with flip-flop. Death is too quick and merciful. Better to suffer in dark, cold, damp, silence for 20-30 years. That is a fate worse than death.

[WShee9]

Over in the socialist peoples republic of China they seem to have capital punishment , even for the softest of crimes.Perhaps if RedEd Millibrand gets in next election he will follow suit...if its good enough for a workers paradise like China then it is good enough for us in the UK.

[Davethedog]

I have always felt that a punishment should be a deterrent not a chance for rehabilitation.

In a case like this why shouldn't they be executed? Anyone who can defend the inhumanity of either of these need thier head testing. As I said the only reservation I have is that its the easy way out.

Maybe they can be burnt alive like thier victims but hey thats barbaric isn't it.