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Originally Posted by Matt Reeeeead
It's not a matter of "deserves".
If he truly did not have the mental ability to make the decision to kill, prison is not considered to be a "penalty" for him. That would suggest that the penalty is being done to change his behaviour (next time he wont stab 5 people! serves him right).
Prison or whatever would be to isolate him from society since we're not sure if he has the ability (or meds have the ability) to allow him to control his actions and prevent him from being harmful to others.
I am bugged by everyone assuming that this was as simple as him pressing the on/off button in the remote like he woke up and said "I'm going to kill 5 people today"!
That's almost for sure not what happened. Maybe it is, we haven't established evidence for that. But it doesn't make sense. It probably is a mental disorder that we need to learn and understand better to make the proper conclusion. At the end of the day, I'm suggesting that "punishing" him is likely worthless, as there may not be anything to "punish". Punish him for what, having a brain disorder he is unable to control? That's akin to punishing a dog because he's stupid. I'm more concerned that until properly diagnosed and figuring this out, that no matter how you slice it he's obviously extremely harmful to society, and until we can have absolute certainty that whatever his issue can be controlled he needs to be removed from society in isolation.
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I'm not worried about punishing the guy...I don't want him walking around free in the community where I raise my children