what do you mean "something like this?"
are you surprised?
I betcha he doesn't get executed and just sits in prison for the rest of his life while our tax dollars take care of his food, entertainment, ect. He going to live the high life son.
I'd rather he not be executed.
the death penalty is stupid anyhow.
it's obviously not a deterrent because we've been executing people for murder for thousands of years... and people still murder.
it's obviously not a punishment; death is the easy way out.
it's obviously not a resolution for the victims; they're still dead and they ain't comin' back.
I would much rather that people like this are just automatically given life without the possibility for parole. federal prison is not "the high life." shit food, shit entertainment, shit cell with a shit bed, and shit neighbors who wants to fuck and stab you in the shower. having to live in those conditions - under constant fear and anxiety with irreconcilable feelings of guilt - until you slowly waste away and die all alone is a much greater punishment than the death penalty can ever be.
He was either tortured a lot over the past few days and had zero sleep or he is so psychotic that anyone that saw him in this condition and didn't report him should have to go to jail too. It was hard to tell, but he definitely was a long ways from normal.
I think this is an unfair analysis.
the guy just looked tired.
everyone's clamoring about "OMG HE'S SO CHILLING AND PSYCHOTIC."
no.
he's tired as fuck and bored. I don't blame him.
you know he's barely gotten a wink of sleep since Thursday night and he knows that the initial court hearing is little more than a bunch of standard procedure crap that he doesn't really need to listen to. and he probably doesn't care. so he was nodding off. big deal.
also I'm sure that he didn't look that way in the weeks prior to the crime.
his hair was not dyed, for one. and from all the student/administrator accounts (people who knew him while he was enrolled in that Neuroscience program) he was a bright and intelligent young man albeit a little shy.
I sincerely doubt that he was walking around looking as disheveled as he did this morning for all the weeks leading up the crime.
he probably looked completely normal most of the time.