https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nikolas-cruz-sentencing-decision/index.html I agree with the decision, because I'm against our eye for eye justice system. I believe that able people should have to work to earn their housing/food/medical care in prison to ease the burden on taxpayers though. I'm also for providing assisted suicide to any prisoner who wants to end their life.
He killed 17 people and wounded another 17. What's the point in having a DP if someone like that doesn't deserve it? Those families will never have closure as long as he is alive.
Now the state has to pay to keep this fucktard alive, clothed and fed while his victims got no such mercy... better to kill him and remove the burden and let families never have to see him or hear about him again by lethal injection... Seriously...if ever there was a slam dunk death penalty case this was it...
And guess what hon...Florida has no state income tax. So this guy will live forever in prison on the taxpayer dime of every other state. YOU are paying for this guy to get three squares and a cot! And you don't even live there! Me neither! I'm gonna' be paying for the Venezuelan immigrants, ok, but at least they are in my own state!
I don't think there is a point to having the death penalty. First of all, he would be on death row for like 20 years with all the appeals. That ends up being a lot of money. Secondly, forget this rare obvious specific case, there's plenty of cases where the death penalty has been enacted on innocent people. Thirdly, America is the only developed western democracy with the death penalty and it sure hasn't deterred us from killing more people than those other countries. In fact, we murder more people per capita than all of them and it's not even close. Fourth, there are clear racial disparities as to when it's applied. Had Cruz been black, there's a much higher likelihood he would have been sentence to death and his upbringing would have been overlooked.
The guy stood over kids with his rifle and murdered them point-blank range. Multiple shots. He blew their brains out all over the place by machine-gunning their skulls. What is wrong with you?
My point is most cases with the death penalty aren't as obvious as these mass shooting cases. We shouldn't let the exception set the standard.
We should let the exception BE the standard.... this is a case where there is ZERO doubt that he is innocent. perfect. Other cases where there are even little doubts, then take it off the table. This case there is no innocent pleadings here....no doubts.