I think the death sentence is too easy for this guy.. but I also think scum like him shouldnt be in prison on our tax dollar too
I say hand him over to the victims family and let them have at him
I think thats a very simplistic and (no offense ment) childish way to look at it. I don't mean just at you personally, I mean everyone who has expressed similar views in this thread.
I mean come on? "Hand him over to the victims family"?
But anyway, things aren't always as easy as one might make them. How can you punish someone who barely knows what he did? How does killing someone make any bit of differance? I do understand the point that these people should not be "wasting tax money", but killing him doesn't make anything different.
Closure for the family? I'm pretty sure that the family doesn't give a fuck about that guy. He is just some lunatic. It could have been anyone. If he dies or lives in a insanse asylum forever, I don't think it would really matter to them. What I think they do care about though is that their loved one is dead, and they are probably completely devastated. And that is going to haunt them for the rest of their lives. Not what happens to that guy. As I said, killing him won't change anything.
He has already said it himself that he wants to die. He has already given up.
He is probably extremely remorseful as well. I mean this wasn't an act of evil. It's not planned out malevolance, or some sinister scheme to enjoy the pain of someone else. As made apparent by the extremely gruesome nature of his act, it was an act of insanity. He did this gruesome thing, infront of all these people and had no plan of getting out and most likely no thought about getting away. Maybe he thought to kill himself afterwards, I don't know.
The fact that this act was so ill planned, and so random and with no direct regard to the consequenses kinda proves, I think, that the act was just a burst of batshit crazy.
Yeah it fucking sucks, and it has definintly messed with my head quite alot since I heard about it. But letting one's primitive and direct feelings of "vengeance" and payback cloud one's judgement, I feel is wrong. And in the end, rather pointless. I can say for myself, that if it were someone in my family, I would care alot more about the person I lost rather than whatever psycho happened to do it. It's just chance. People like this exist. And sometimes they snap. And if you are just real fucking unlucky, you just might be sitting next to them. But that's life.