Posted on 01/11/2011 5:20:56 PM PST by SwaggerStick
It is an absolute fact that Jared Lee Loughner shot and killed six people. So what should
happen to Loughner? Which one of the following three would you choose?
Piñata Justice
Assemble all the relatives of those killed and issue them ball bats. Hang Loughner upside
down by his feet at the same location he did the killing. Notify the public there will be
Piñata Justice at sundown and they are all welcome to attend. Have at it at sundown.
Public Hanging
Have a public hanging at sundown, same location as he did the killing.
Trial by Jury
Assign public defender Judy Clarke to try and hoodwink a brain dead jury into thinking
Loughner is innocent.
The speculation on what caused this nut case Loughner to kill is unbelievable. According
to some the blame lies with hostile political rhetoric, violent symbols, and gun ownership.
According to Bill Maher gun owners are assassins, perhaps Maher is a bigger nut than
Loughner, Maher uses words and lies rather than bullets to try and kill America. When
challenged with the truth the biased political filter in Maher’s mind makes him speak like
a mental midget. Maher says “the gun lobby should be called the assassins lobby”, those
are words of a mental midget, with national presence, trying to destroy America.
How about this public statement from Pelosi for hostile political rhetoric “"We have to
pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” How many would liked to have
reached into the television and strangled this ignorant fool when they heard that? And
how many had thoughts of ill fortune happening to this arrogant damn fool when we
heard it? This kind of dictatorial ignorant statement by Pelosi is far more hostile to the
mentally sane than all the other hostile political rhetoric and violent symbols conjured up
anyone.
If political rhetoric caused people to act violently there would be millions assaulting
ignorant tyrants like Pelosi. Loughner’s act had little to do with political rhetoric and
more to do with a highly unstable mind. Far more damaging to America than a few nut
cases like Loughner are the tyrannical activities of trusted government officials like Reid
and Pelosi.
There will not be piñata justice, nor will there be a public hanging. There will be the
usual politically correct carnival trial with defense attorneys doing their disgusting dance
of deception while trying to defend the indefensible. There will be the news media using
their politically correct terms like “the accused is charged with” to cover the circus act in
the court room. In the end, after spending millions of tax payer dollars, Judy Clarke’s
misguided sense of justice in our twisted justice system will fail and Loughner will be
sentenced to death.
Sheriff Dupnik is like Sputnik – far out in space.
After a trial, a public hanging on the court house front lawn. Not at the Safeway where INNOCENTS lost their lives.
Hanging at the big tree.
Highly unlikely. If it gets to trial, the jury will find him insane and he'll be put away for the rest of his life.
Quite rightly, too.
Whether we should execute crazy people instead of locking them up is a good subject for debate, but it's pretty near impossible to contend he committed this act while sane.
He should be questioned by Jack Bauer. After a few minutes, someone should call the coroner. He slipped and broke his neck.
The legal definition of "insanity" is very narrow (and Congress made it even narrower after Hinckley was acquitted of shooting President Reagan). You can be absolutely raving psychotic and still be legally "sane." Loughner wqas certainly batsh!t crazy, but I predict a conviction.
“Whether we should execute crazy people instead of locking them up is a good subject for debate, but it’s pretty near impossible to contend he committed this act while sane.”
Executing Insane People is hard to defend today.
There was a Verdict I heard of “Guilty But Insane”.
Not sure where it has been applied.
Person would be Locked up and If they were subsequently found to be Sane the Normal sentence would be applied.
This might eliminate the practice of locking the Loony up for six months and then letting them return to society.
He deserves a fair trial and a strong defense and, if found guilty, deserves the maximum penalty under the law. He should be executed but his death should not be made into a public spectacle like in a muslim country. It should be carried out with dignity, behind closed doors, and in full accordance with the eighth amendment.
I think less than 2% of defendants are found to be truly insane. He may be a civil commitment, but will be tried when “sane”. Everyone says the guy is nuts. His lawyer will be all over that testimony. This guy won’t get the death sentence, especially in federal court.
“Not sure where it has been applied.”
Danny Rollins. UF serial killer. When found competant he was sentenced appropriately.
Excuse the last name brain fart. I saw him in his cell in Chatahoochee in the early 90’s. We paid to get him better so we could kill him. Not much sense to it...
In a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors are tightly controlled and monitored 24x7, and where crime is practically non-existent, the protagonist murders two people. (One is the woman who's just been assigned as his "mate," the other is the man who's been assigned to the woman he himself desires; hence he hopes that with two fewer mates-to-be, the computer will now pair him up with the woman he really wants).
His punishment is that he's placed in perpetuity in a glass-walled cage that sits at a major junction of pedestrian paths (cars don't exist) in the brave-new-world colony they live in. He's suspended from its ceiling via a harness, and has feeding and waste tubes attached to keep him alive with a minimal need for maintenance.
He is naked except for the harness and a large number of electrodes affixed to his body in all kinds of strategic places. Outside the glass wall, there's a plaque explaining his crimes, along with an invitation to passersby to pause for a few moments and try their hand at pushing the buttons. Each numbered button corresponds to a numbered electrode, and there is a voltage knob as well.
At story's end, the single thing that torments him most is the fact that the most frequent daily visitor is the woman he desired. Apparently she really *did* want to mate with that big hunk that he was trying to "save" her from after all! After countless hours of experimenting, she's learned all the best combinations and timings to produce maximum pain, and learns when he's just about to pass out so that she can back off a bit and keep the pain session going.
Every once in awhile when I read of a crime that's so heinous, that life imprisonment in solitary seems far too lenient, I think back to this story.
He’ll die with a needle in his arm in a Federal prison in Indiana.
I don't know about the insanity defense. It appears Loughner planned this out to cause maximum chaos and is smirking about his deeds.
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