[Kizzy]

What place does pragmatics have in emotive issues?

[Indy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What place does pragmatics have in emotive issues?

It's a pointless argument. He got life in prison, people were already screaming that he deserved lethal injection. If he'd gotten death, they would've been screaming that he deserved life in prison so he'd suffer longer. He's dead now, and people are screaming that it's not good enough. No legal punishment on earth would ever have been good enough, so not much point in pretending people would suddenly have been happier if he'd been wasting away in prison for the next however many years until someone shanked him on his way to the showers.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Indy

It's a pointless argument. He got life in prison, people were already screaming that he deserved lethal injection. If he'd gotten death, they would've been screaming that he deserved life in prison so he'd suffer longer. He's dead now, and people are screaming that it's not good enough. No legal punishment on earth would ever have been good enough, so not much point in pretending people would suddenly have been happier if he'd been wasting away in prison for the next however many years until someone shanked him on his way to the showers.

I agree, it's one of those crimes where no punishment would be good enough, 1,000 years in prison or death by a thousand cuts.

His actions were almost beyond belief and to commit these crimes on a daily basis for over 10 years simply takes ones breath away.

Maybe we (society) are upset with ourselves on some level that we couldn't have interrupted his evil game years before, maybe we have a collective guilty conscience ??

Either way I wish this piece of scum could have served some meaningful jail time just so he could get a small taste of the horror he inflicted on these young innocent girls....!!!