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Tommy Carcetti

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6. It's a huge waste of time and legal expense.

Reply to BigDemVoter (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2022, 04:00 PM

Oct 2022

They should have just taken the shooter's offer to plead guilty and let him rot away in prison.

As it stands now, they're unlikely to get a unanimous death penalty verdict from the jury, nor should we even be bothering with such things in this day and age.

Even when it comes to truly horrific crimes like this.

The Colorado theater shooter got life in prison and no one bothers to think about him any more, nor should they.

Death penalty proceedings just add unnecessary attention to the culprit.

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Quite frankly, I think life in prison would be worse than the death penalty for this [View all] BigDemVoter Oct 2022 OP

Paywall. Who you talking about? LakeArenal Oct 2022 #1

The killer in Parkland, FL, Nikolas Cruz. . . BigDemVoter Oct 2022 #5

Thanks LakeArenal Oct 2022 #7

I'll take affixation by H2O every time multigraincracker Oct 2022 #2

As long as I'm hypothesizing ... Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2022 #3

Not many prisoners would select the death penalty if given a choice. Chainfire Oct 2022 #4

It's a huge waste of time and legal expense. Tommy Carcetti Oct 2022 #6