Unless,of course the governor intervenes…what are the chances of that?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/10/crimesider/entry5599586.shtml
He was a jihadist too, btw.
Good riddance!
[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
He was a jihadist too, btw. [/quote]
Reading your link in your thread about attacks reminded me.
I wonder what the pay rate is for an executioner?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
HolyMacaroni wrote:
I wonder what the pay rate is for an executioner?
I have a feeling some would pay to be the executioner for this guy. Could probably auction it off or something like that.[/quote]
I am saving up right now for Hasan.
yay
Wasn’t there a kid with him helping, hiding in the truck, or was that another story?
Can someone explain the “mentally ill” defense? I don’t understand how “I’m mentally ill” can explain sniping innocent people, or in the case of the Canadian greyhound incident, stabbing a guy to death and mutilating his body. How does mental illness make them any more worthy of life?
Big Boss, are you former military?
[quote]JLu wrote:
Can someone explain the “mentally ill” defense? I don’t understand how “I’m mentally ill” can explain sniping innocent people, or in the case of the Canadian greyhound incident, stabbing a guy to death and mutilating his body. How does mental illness make them any more worthy of life?[/quote]
The reasoning is that, by not knowing right from wrong, you do not possess the intelligence to differentiate what is good and what is evil. In other words, he would not know that killing people is a bad thing. That is a very rough explanation.
[quote]JLu wrote:
Can someone explain the “mentally ill” defense? I don’t understand how “I’m mentally ill” can explain sniping innocent people, or in the case of the Canadian greyhound incident, stabbing a guy to death and mutilating his body. How does mental illness make them any more worthy of life?[/quote]
Insanity is a defense against murder in Common Law countries. To be guilty of murder you have to intend to kill someone, in legal parlance to have had the mens rea, or criminal mindedness. If you are insane, you cannot by definition have this state of mind, since that would require rationality and understanding the consequences of your action, and perceiving your victim as another person (and not as some hallucinatory creature or thing).
In other words, someone gets paid to sit down and think of shit like this that looks good in writing.
I can see how you can explain away ability to discern criminal intent or things along those lines, I still don’t see where they can justify keeping such a person alive though. Do they hope the person will eventually get over these murderous impulses and rejoin society or something?
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Big Boss, are you former military?[/quote]
I was Army Reserve for a short stint…didn’t end on the best of terms…therefore I never mention it until now.
[quote]JLu wrote:
I can see how you can explain away ability to discern criminal intent or things along those lines, I still don’t see where they can justify keeping such a person alive though. Do they hope the person will eventually get over these murderous impulses and rejoin society or something?[/quote]
Because no court wants to kill someone that is actually mentally insane; they feel guilty. To answer your questions, it’s case dependent, but once those brain cells are destroyed, they never come back. What’s funny is crack does them same thing, and cops have no problem beating the shit out of those people. Irony, huh.
[quote]101airborne wrote:
JLu wrote:
I can see how you can explain away ability to discern criminal intent or things along those lines, I still don’t see where they can justify keeping such a person alive though. Do they hope the person will eventually get over these murderous impulses and rejoin society or something?
Because no court wants to kill someone that is actually mentally insane; they feel guilty. To answer your questions, it’s case dependent, but once those brain cells are destroyed, they never come back. What’s funny is crack does them same thing, and cops have no problem beating the shit out of those people. Irony, huh.[/quote]
Brain and nerve cells do replicate. just very very slowly.
To me, being mentally insane makes you more, not less dangerous. What is the difference between a less intelligent person not knowing something is wrong, and one that is highly intellectual believing what they do isn’t wrong? Heck, I could find some extreme racists or homophobes that, because of a mental predisposition, didn’t believe it wrong to kill certain people. That, to me, would make them as deserving of leniency.
True, they do grow but not fast enough to make a difference b/c of the amount of cells dying. I’ve heard of scientist using HGH for cell growth, but I’m not sure of the effectiveness.
I’m surprised it only took 7 years.