We don’t live in an ideal society anywhere in the world. And there are many sub-societies. One of those is prison. In prison, there is still a community of sorts, with very low standards. Jeffrey Dahmer did not meet those standards. He was a serial killer who ate parts of his victims, and preserved parts for later use. Prison society came to a consensus. He was unfit to dwell in even that society. The date of his execution was set. The screws agreed to be absent, answering pre-arranged disturbance somewhere. The inmates agreed to do it fast and anonymously. He was found dead. Nobody snitched.
The same could, and imho should, be done with Mr. shove-six-year-old’s-corpse-in-garbage-can-and-put-it-out-for-collection.
His non-confession matched the Police detectives’ earlier investigation, corroborating timeline and forensic finds. The case was presented for trial, and he was convicted. What non-prison society failed to do, which is sentence him to death, prison society owes it to itself to correct for its own sake, to keep the Rec Room reserved for respectable extortionists, pimps and meth cookers, and rapists who don’t go for six-year-olds and then kill them.
That, anyway, is how I see it.
I was on a jury call-up list in our county several months
ago. Got turned down by some attorneys because my husband
had worked for the BK court for several years. I finally
did serve on a jury in a traffic accident case. - The
judge told us we’d probably get several murder cases during
our time slot. We missed it; but the next pool of jurors
got hit hard. - I’m sure when I tell them that I support
the death penalty in the case of murder, they’ll send me
packing. - They claim they quit calling retired people for
jury duty when they reach 65. Well, I was 68! So, surely
they’ll take me off the list. - I took myself off the road
at around 67, because my reflexes weren’t what they used to
be. So, Fang drove me in & sat in the car waiting until
we finished. (We live way out in the country & the
round trip is just too far.)