While I am not against capital punishment, I am against them killing these highly proficent serial murderers. I wan't them studied and kept in isolation for the rest of their natural lives to see if we can learn something.
Ted Bundy should never have been executed, IMO. If Charles Manson could escape it...why not Bundy?
Read "Mindhunter" or log on to crimelibrary.com.
Serial killers have been thoroughly studied. They kill because it satisfies them and because they have no regard for other human beings. Ted Bundy said that he never felt guilt, that he felt sorry for people who did feel guilt.
Such creatures are too dangerous to have around, even locked up. Execute them.
That's a tough one. I can appreciate the merits of studying them. However, justice (in whatever form) should be the first priority.
An aside; In my opinion, proficient serial killers seem to have a commonality. That is a belief in their own superiority and intelligence over law enforcement. They all seem to relish in their duping authorities.
With that in mind, how can they be studied? It would seem to me that they would continue their mind games - especially once incarcerated. Instantly they have nothing beter to do other than thinking, planning and rehearsing.
The "something" that we know is that some people just choose evil and in doing so become evil
Society will learn nothing more other than they're all psychopaths and/or are just evil.....which we already know.
Why provide steady (taxpayer-paid) income for expensive shrinks nationwide to "analyze" and "study" these sadists up till the time they shuffle off this mortal coil on their own.....maybe not until they're in their eighties.
Leni
While I support capital punnishment, I like the study them idea. Since the state could put them to death, why not give them the choice to give something back to society by allowing the state to study them or to use them for research. Brain scans, experimental drug testing, you name it. It would be volutary on their part (as opposed to their victims), but at least they could do something productive with their lives beyond dying.