Man suspected in deaths of five children

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29136753

EDIT: changed the subject. Sorry I didn't have the energy to type this last night. it still makes me sick. How can someone do this?

[graylocks]

saw this story just as I was sitting down to dinner. a big why why why to life. to those who hate no info links this is the story of a South Carolina man arrested today on charges of murdering his five children and dumping their bodies in Alabama. details are still sketchy.

[Racer X]

two words

Death Penalty

someone who doesn't play well with others shouldn't be allowed to play any more.

[RgrF]

Those states already have active death penalty statutes; those laws didn't prevent this did they? He can't play if he's locked up for life AND it's miles cheaper in the long run.

[WHiiP]

How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

[Speedy]

WHiiP wrote:
How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

He did it. No doubt about it. Still much cheaper to give him a life sentence.

[DeusxMac]

Should move this to the other side.

[Paul F.]

You ask why?

Meth.

[RgrF]

WHiiP wrote:
How so, RgrF?

Plant him. IF he did it.

With mandated appeals and all it costs some 5 to 10 times more to execute someone than it does to lock them away for life, not to mention that life spent in todays penal system is a death dragged out over decades.

He'll be a dead man soon after being released into the prison's general population anyway.

[Uncle Wig]

If we are going to have a death penalty (which, at least in theory, I believe we should) we need to be clear about its purpose: punishment. You do certain things - you forfeit your right to life. Those states also have life in prison, don't they? That didn't deter this crime either. No penalty deters crime, obviously.

RgrF wrote:
Those states already have active death penalty statutes; those laws didn't prevent this did they? He can't play if he's locked up for life AND it's miles cheaper in the long run.