Quote:Yeah, but all those appeals...attorneys ain't cheap, and I'm pretty sure Holmes isn't paying for his own defenders.

 

So what would you do with Holmes, hmm? Send him to a mental hospital where he'll be placed on meds for ten years then released back into the population?

 

Holmes clearly has mental health issues. I won't argue you on that. Did his mental health issues keep him from understanding the difference between right and wrong? No, and he said as much to a psychiatrist during the course of his evaluations. His motives don't matter. What matters is that he stepped into a movie theater packed with 400 people, threw smoke grenades to increase the chaos, then walked around shooting innocent people, and he was aware that what he was doing was wrong. That is the legal standard applied to a plea of insanity: does the defendant know that what they're doing is wrong?

 

I'm anti-death penalty, so I suppose my preference would be that he spend the rest of his life in prison, used by the general population as I suggested in my OP. In this case, however, I won't complain too loudly if he gets the death penalty. In fact, I won't really complain at all. Will locking him up for life and/or executing him stop the next psycho from committing the same crime? No, but it'll make damn sure that he doesn't do it again.

 

One can be a sociopath and a murderer without being clinically insane. Holmes' motives may have been as simple as a quote that seems very apropos here: "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

 

Your mama must be so proud lol. Are we supposed to be impressed with your high moral standards of opposing the death penalty? From a person who hopes someone "is used by the general population"?

 

And that silliness about being released after ten years really makes you look ignorant. Tell me someone who committed a crime of this nature, was found to be insane, and then released after ten years?

 

Hey, whatever you need to tell yourself to satisfy your need for revenge.

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