If I need to take out the repost of this link, I'll be happy to, but after watching this vid clip on "Top 50 Serial Killer Moments" (at the end), posted by
@taintfutcha , my outline and flow chart are in the trash, I'm finished trying to figure out how to
correctly put it together, and I'm just dumping it out unformatted, unorganized, and to hell with decorum.
If I were asked to vote for the Death Penalty in this country as it stands, you could twist my voting arm right out of its socket and I'd still be screaming, "Never!" Period.
Between our "kangaroo court" system (Rules of Evidence, Prejudicing the Jury, Juries only voting on what they're "allowed" to know, etc.), the seriously *flawed* Jury System itself in which gang mentality often takes over during long, emotional trials and "naysayers" and "hold-outs" are flat out insulted, brow-beaten and bullied into going along with the "popular vote" so they can wrap "it" up (the "it" being the life and freedom of the human being on trial) and get back to their lives, and the entire pomp, pageantry and thespian staging of two or more attorneys pitted "against" each other to see which one wins the Oscar for Best, Most Manipulative Actor in a Real Live Drama Series, forget it. Not in this lifetime, not ever. No DP cases on my end, but in criminal court, been there, watched some horrendously unjust, unethical shit happen, threw the dirty tee shirt in the trash.
My biggest reason has already been well-covered here. The two statements that best encapsulate my lifelong, deeply held moral convictions on this are a common variation/adaptation of Blackstone's Ratio, "It is better to let 10 guilty men go free than to condemn one innocent man to death, " and the more contemporary saying CB already referenced on a tee shirt I have, "Why do we kill people to teach people that killing people is wrong?" But, do I
*believe* in the Death Penalty? AbsoTivelyPosiLutely.
As I mentioned, this isn't formatted, and I don't expect anyone to agree, but:
(1) I cannot remember a time in my life ever since learning about/studying everything I could get my hands on serial killers/rapists, serial sexual sadists/murders, i.e., the people highlighted in this vid clip, as human "specimens" in an objective, scientific sense - very different from human beings; the worst of the worst individuals within the human species; fascinating, defective, dangerously rogue, infectious, broken human beings who're somehow hardwired to become who/what they became, be it Nature, Nurture, or both.
(2) When I pull back objectively, take the "ego" out of humanity and look at us strictly as another evolving mammalian species on this planet, I compare the way in which other species interact and deal with the weak, sick, antisocial members of their social groups and communities. Like the rest of these social species whose instinct it is to breed out and weed out bad genetics and other undesirable traits to maintain the strongest, most genetically desirable traits to aid in the healthy survival of their populations (not talking Eugenics, just ordinary, evolutionary survival), we also contain these mostly subconcious instincts when it comes to these kinds of human beings.
(3) Though in our relative childhoods of biogenetics, endocrinology, the brain sciences, and many other fields, we *do* have a lot of the base technology in all the various fields of Science, esp. all medically/psychologically-relative sciences, to be able to accurately study and in some cases, treat and even cure human defects, diseases, and other conditions that affect humankind. What we're doing on Biogenetic fronts alone (as terrifying as the bad side is) is ground-breaking and truly cutting edge. Useful, helpful new diagnostics and gene therapies, for example, are being developed not only to genetically "cure" many diseases in the already living who're afflicted, but also to help avoid them altogether in the form of genetic innoculations, so to speak, against the genes that carry the diseased, defective information.
(4) As I ranted in a post in this link after watching the vid clip cameos, the psychological, behavioral and personality-type characteristic similarities between the people in this group are *so* obvious, I believe we are failing ourselves by *not* using these lifers for Science and the moral strengthing and betterment of humanity. I believe this particular group and others like them are irreparably broken units; human beings who cannot serve humanity or "pay it back" in any way, shape or form sitting in prison being treated like macabre celebrities, "Oooo and Ahhh'ed" over (and they are), but they *can* do the *best* thing they could *ever* do in their lives to give something of real, lasting and
incredible value back on a meaningful level - themselves.
For the sake of length, I'm going to skip further explanation in this post, take the heat for the explanations I'm leaving out, and just say my TT question "Should Prisoners Be Used For Medical Experiments," was, for me and me alone, based on this group of people right here, and others like them as they're finally caught, and my poll answer was "Yes." That's why I wanted respondants to put in their own qualifiers and conditions rather than me defining any group or circumstance.
IMO, when all approved criteria for this particular group of predators is met, they are proven guilty in an *ethical* court of law and/or they admit to their grisly, abhorrent crimes, and bona fide mental illness is ruled out, I believe a mandatory penalty of donation of themselves for *ethical* criminal Scientific study, investigation and research from all relative fields (via ethical established criteria) should be imposed, and if they refuse, the DP is imposed and they are literally, immediately taken out by firing squad using "vitals" shots only, to keep it as humane as possible - no head shots b/c their brains and bodies immediately go to the Research Scientists who can study their brains, hormones, blood chemistries, and so on, post mortem. Once this is done, their remains should be cremated for any family member(s)/loved ones who want them. And that is that.
I do not feel this way b/c I "hate them," "want revenge", or for any other "me" reason other than the advancement of Science to one day help reduce/prevent these kinds of human genetic defects from being passed along in the gene pool, or the growth and development of these types being caught *after* they destroy 23+ innocent people and hundreds of their loved ones lives. Paying millions for them to sit in prison with this vitally important, life-saving, society-changing information locked inside of them to simply bide their time and eventually waste away taking the keys to the betterment of humankind to their graves is one of the most sickening, disgusting wastes of life, Pro-Human Science, and a solid, *real* opportunity for them to "give something back" besides best-selling "all about so and so" books I can think of when it comes to this issue. This human, compulsive drive and the psychophysiological positive feedback system that temporarily gives them a highly pleasurable "sexkillrapedestroygasm" needs to be identified, IMO.
I'm very familiar with the lives of the cruel and violent in prison as well as in a few higher profile cases here and 99.9% (my guestimate) of the sick, violent, predatory population do *not* "suffer" anything at all, but a scant few who have been killed by inmates.
As always, JMO, Your Mileage May Vary.
Link to vid:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/community/threads/serial-killer-moments-some-graphic-footage.75697/