Good riddance to this piece of ****, excellent punishment.
+1 million, they deserve an extra helping of dinner.I have had some personal experience with people like that guy. The only thing I see wrong with what those inmates did was turn themselves in.
+1 million, they deserve an extra helping of dinner.
Ignernt,
I think you have it wrong - society, i.e. us, are copping out on a very real responsibility because we aren't being courageous enough to make a hard decision and then back it up.
If Dahmer was beyond reform (which I firmly believe) then we as a people had a choice to either put him to death or imprison him indefinitely at which time his safety, at least from other prisoners becomes our responsibility. Instead we basically said "he deserves death, is beyond reform, but we are too squeamish to do what is required". Instead we make ourselves "feel" morally superior by granting him his life and then put him into a prison population where everyone knew he would eventually be murdered - we let our criminals do our dirty work so we could keep our hands clean.
That certainly isn't true mercy, it is just cowardice cloaked by a fig leaf.
If men deserve death due to their freely chosen action then we ought to have the moral courage to either do so - after trial and a fair chance of appeal - swiftly and deliberately but not via death by other inmate.
I'm with Mugsy on this one. There's a certain level of societal responsibility that our penal system must embrace. I'm not shedding a tear over the death of this guy. but it needed to be done properly, not at the hands of fellow convicted criminals. Rewarding the two men that killed him, as some have mentioned, only serves to reinforce the idea that allowing fellow inmates to impose their own sentence on an inmate is okay. Think about these guys for a minute. they are inmates, found guilty of a crime that was deemed heinous enough to require detention in a federal penitentiary. They have already shown an exceptional level of poor judgement and action. That's why they're inmates. Think about the anarchy that rewarding this behavior would bring in that penitentiary.
The penal system needs to grow a pair and start executing guys like this. I, for one, don't want prisoners in a penitentiary rewarded for murdering an inmate, regardless of the circumstances. That could go nowhere but bad in a hurry.
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