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Originally Posted by Sliver
I'm not into locking somebody up forever, either, and his mental health is a huge mitigating factor in culpability. I would think now that he's medicated he could reflect more on the events and how it must be impacting the victims' families as well as his own. That's why I believe it would be an honourable ending for him to do the maximum thing possible for atonement and compassion to everyone he has hurt. Go away permanently. While not his fault due to his schizophrenia, it's certainly more his fault than anybody else's, obviously.
I don't think the justice system should kill him. I don't know if he should be locked up forever. I do believe the mental health professionals job is to tell us if he is a risk to re-offend and we should accept their recommendations as part of determining his future. But that's all we can do.
de Grood has the ability to circumvent all of the uncertainty and how uneasy he's making a couple million people by ending his own life. It's what I'd do in his shoes.
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If de Grood has come to terms with his actions and how they got to that, I believe he should be afforded some freedom that includes regular reporting to his doctor to make sure he's taking his meds. Not a full discharge but a graduated level of progress where he shows that he understands why he can never stop taking his meds.
On the other hand there are those in society that would settle for nothing less than de Grood being locked up forever. Even then their thirst for revenge would not be satisfied.