The Washington sniper.

agree, a few years late but better late than never.

Victim of Gulf War Syndrome - clear, long-term mental problems - probably says more about the way American society treats its war veterans than anything else.

I'm sure the victim's families would have much rather the guy had been given proper treatment at the appropriate time than to sit there and watch him be executed.

I'm sure the victim's families would have much rather the guy had been given proper treatment at the appropriate time than to sit there and watch him be executed.

What a ridiculous statement... of course they would have wanted him to have received treatment at the time(if any was actually needed) because their relatives and friends would still be alive. He wasn't treated (if he actually needed any) and murdered people and now I reckon they'll be happy to sit there and watch the pr1ck fry... and quite rightly so.

I'm sure the victim's families would have much rather the guy had been given proper treatment at the appropriate time than to sit there and watch him be executed.











Honestly Doc, what world do you live in? Do you not remember "an eye for and eye" in the good book. And no nonsense about blindness please.

Im surprised that there were any people left alive in the civilian population after the second world war, you would have thought that the returning soldiers would have wiped half of them out.

Reading about the mans history he seemed to have been a control freak who wanted to screw all and sundry and then threw a wobbly when his wife left him.

DrJ
Your comment about the victims' families was probably the biggest load of rubbish ever written (even) on this forum.

With that one short post, you have revealed beyond peradventure , just how out of touch you are with the world the rest of us inhabit.

Anything yuo post in the future will now have to be discounted without further thought.

Good bye.

it's a pity this country dont kill the**

s**

ahhh.should have been let out years ago;he could have partyed with rose and fred west.

Anything yuo post in the future will now have to be discounted without further thought.

What about the b0ll0x he's posted in the past?

To be fair, Dr J's post is not in conflict with the original list of points. While I shall not worry about the execution of someone who perpetrated acts over a period of time, I do think there is a wider point on states' [sic] treatment of those who secure them.

Thank you Goring (and lovely use of the genetive too...).

Do you not remember "an eye for and eye" in the good book.

Yes, the good book is full of great advice, as I recall. Shouldn't all menstruating women be forced to eat and sleep outdoors?

Zanuliars 11 Nov 11:52
Will not cost the US tax payer another dime.


I'm not saying if the DP is right or wrong, but it does mean that the idea of saving them money is completely wrong.


A new study released by the Urban Institute on March 6, 2008 forecasted that the lifetime expenses of capitally-prosecuted cases since 1978 will cost Maryland taxpayers $186 million. That translates into at least $37.2 million for each of the states five executions since the state reenacted the death penalty. The study estimates that the average cost to Maryland taxpayers for reaching a single death sentence is $3 million - $1.9 million more than the cost of a non-death penalty case. (This includes investigation, trial, appeals, and incarceration costs.) The study examined 162 capital cases that were prosecuted between 1978 and 1999 and found that those cases will cost $186 million more than what those cases would have cost had the death penalty not existed as a punishment. At every phase of a case, according to the study, capital murder cases cost more than non-capital murder cases.

The average cost of defending a trial in a federal death case is $620,932, about 8 times that of a federal murder case in which the death penalty is not sought.

At the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel. On direct appeal, the cost of appellate defense averages $100,000 more in death penalty cases, than in non-death penalty murder cases. Personal restraint petitions filed in death penalty cases on average cost an additional $137,000 in public defense costs.

Tennessee death penalty trials cost an average of 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment.


http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

further reading, students!

overboard 11 Nov 13:06


DrJ
Your comment about the victims' families was probably the biggest load of rubbish ever written (even) on this forum.

With that one short post, you have revealed beyond peradventure , just how out of touch you are with the world the rest of us inhabit.

Anything yuo post in the future will now have to be discounted without further thought.

Good bye.



Most people did that when he said the real brave men in the war were them that refused to fight.

I'm sure the victim's families would have much rather the guy had been given proper treatment at the appropriate time than to sit there and watch him be executed.

You really are a complete naif and super-annuated hippy aren't you ?

Hundreds of thousands of troops must have been more severely traumatised than this character in WWI but they didn't go around murdering randomly did they ?

Most people did that when he said the real brave men in the war were them that refused to fight.

That crossed my mind last night watching Andrew Marr. Thousands of young men being slaughtered but the brave ones were the ones that hid at home discussing gay adoption.