re: James Holmes gets life in prison

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While I would prefer a Saudi type punishment, Supermax is no bullshite. He will suffer and lose his mind in a concrete box. The intoxication he got from his actions will fade quickly and he will devolve into throwing feces in desperation.

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Meh, seg is not that bad as long as you can keep your mind active. The lack of books is all that ever really pissed me off. If you are halfway mentally strong you adapt to it.

All the people here that are begging for the death penalty don't understand how much money the state of CO just saved. On top of that, the families don't have to walk into a court room for the next 20 years and retell their story. They actually get closure now knowing that it's over and he's going to be locked in a small, dark cell for the rest of his life. As a family member of those killed by his actions which would you prefer: A. Him live the rest of his life in a cell and be able to move on; or B. have to be at every appeal for the next 20 years to retell why you think he deserves death and not be able to move on from the atrocities of his actions?

I'm violently ambivalent to this

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Any true pro-life Christian should oppose the death penalty.

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Being against abortion and for the death penalty is completely consistent. The unborn child is innocent. The murderer isn't.

However, any pro-choice liberal should be for the death penalty. Being pro-choice and against the death penalty is completely, monstrously hypocritical.

Idiocy.

Should'f

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It is cast with original sin.

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Only according to the laws of men.

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I cannot imagine the mental gymnastics required to justify wholesale slaughter of the unborn, purely for convenience, yet letting murdering beasts who should rightly be put down just live on and on, at all of our collective expense.

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I cannot imagine the mental gymnastics required to justify wholesale slaughter of the unborn, purely for convenience, yet letting murdering beasts who should rightly be put down just live on and on, at all of our collective expense.

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No shite.

And I'm pro abortion. The logic you are mention above makes no sense at all.

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yet letting murdering beasts who should rightly be put down just live on and on, at all of our collective expense.

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Except that the death penalty is more expensive

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A new study of the cost of the death penalty in Colorado revealed that capital proceedings require six times more days in court and take much longer to resolve than life-without-parole (LWOP) cases. The study, published in the University of Denver Criminal Law Review, found that LWOP cases required an average of 24.5 days of in-court time, while the death-penalty cases required 147.6 days. The authors noted that selecting a jury in an LWOP case takes about a day and a half; in a capital case, jury selection averages 26 days. In measuring the comparative time it takes to go from charging a defendant to final sentencing, the study found that LWOP cases took an average of 526 days to complete; death cases took almost 4 calendar years longer--1,902 days. The study found that even when a death-penalty case ends in a plea agreement and a life sentence, the process takes a year and a half longer than an LWOP case with a trial.

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The death penalty keeps assholes like this in the spotlight.