LAX shooter could face the death penalty

[brooklynite]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Federal prosecutors on Saturday filed a murder charge against the alleged gunman in the shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport in which a Transportation Security Administration screener was killed.

Other charges related to firing a weapon inside an international airport were also filed against 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, who was identified by police as the man who opened fire inside Terminal 3 about 9:20 a.m. Friday. At an FBI news briefing Saturday, officials confirmed that Ciancia used an assault rifle in the attack.

If convicted, Ciancia faces life in prison without parole, or possibly the death penalty, authorities said Saturday.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-los-angeles-airport-shooting-20131102,0,6773320.story

[seattle15]

1. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Too bad some violent people are seeing this as a chance to promote their violent agenda.

[brooklynite]

3. Huh?

Who's promoting something?

We can agree that the Death Penalty isn't a goos idea, but's it's the Law on the Books for this sort of crime.

[IkeRepublican]

2. In California? Good luck with that possibility coming to fruition

SOB premeditated with the clear intent to kill indiscriminately with absolute impunity in a public place. People that damaged deserve the DP.

Yeah, that's right. I said it. This is definite a far cry from Texas and their lunacy of injecting mentally challenged people with the sense of a first grader just to show what big tough guys Texans are.

[mulsh]

4. He'll be prosecuted in federal court not the state's courts. He's alleged to have

killed a federal employee.

Welcome to DU

[Angleae]

7. Execution is less likely to happen in the federal system than CA.

3 executed by the feds (including McVeigh) since capital punishment was re-instututed in 1976, 13 by California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_federal_government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California

[legcramp]

6. Gotta love them liberal/progressive prison rape jokes

Just cain't get enough of them.

[tofuandbeer]

12. Thank you!

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Is this RedState?

[Gore1FL]

8. Two basic issues I have with this:

1> We shouldn't reward "suicide by cop" actions with the death penalty. I hypothesize if such attempts failed in high profile ways resulting in imprisonment, people might be less inclined to take the "suicide by cop" approach.

2> I believe the death penalty is wrong in all cases.

[tofuandbeer]

13. +1

[LibDemAlways]

9. He was shot in the head. He's in critical condition

and non-responsive. This discussion is very premature.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Only in America...

Fill him full of lead, then rush to save his miserable life so he can stand trial and be sentenced to death.

[Gman]

14. Yup, makes no sense

[christx30]

15. That's because the person

that shot him, the person that is treating him, and the judge will sentence him are different people. He was shot while attempting a mass murder. Do you wish he hadn't of gotten shot? And since he did get shot, would you rather the state order the doctor to let him die without a trial?

[JohnnyRingo]

16. More of a anecdotal observation ....

..than a deep study of society and justice.

Don't read too much into it.

[Aristus]

17. Oh, shit, man!

That's what he WANTS! To be a martyr for whatever putrid cause sent him over the edge in the first place.

Find a very small, uncomfortable oubliette for him somewhere. Let him rot in it, and let us hear no more of him...