A teenage boy has been detained for life after raping and killing a 14-year-old girl with a hammer.

Orionaut · 24 Feb 2019 at 14:07

cheesyboy said:
Estimates suggest something like 50% of violent crime is committed by psychopaths. And psychopaths are pretty much immune to the threat of punishment.

True, but the other 50% are not, those are the people we want to deter.

IronWarrior · 24 Feb 2019 at 17:24

cheesyboy said:
Estimates suggest something like 50% of violent crime is committed by psychopaths. And psychopaths are pretty much immune to the threat of punishment.

Said this many times, but we should test for this while the kids are in schools. At different stages in their years, they should be tested so they can be given help and watched closer.

Chris Wilson · 24 Feb 2019 at 21:01

cheesyboy said:
Because they like to play it to the public gallery. And so they prefer a bloodless method

An overdose of morphine then nitrogen inhalation is bloodless, painless, cheap and the substances readily available. No need to over complicate euthanasia. Any vet could also put someone painlessly down with stuff in his arsenal. A nurse at my late uncle's veterinary practice chose such a means for her own suicide. A timer syringe driver did the trick, she wrote that her relatives should not be too distraught, she had chosen a painless and none messy exit. Quite why the US dither about with unusual and complex cocktails I do not know.

[FnG]magnolia · 24 Feb 2019 at 21:30

Chris Wilson said:
An overdose of morphine then nitrogen inhalation is bloodless, painless, cheap and the substances readily available. No need to over complicate euthanasia. Any vet could also put someone painlessly down with stuff in his arsenal. A nurse at my late uncle's veterinary practice chose such a means for her own suicide. A timer syringe driver did the trick, she wrote that her relatives should not be too distraught, she had chosen a painless and none messy exit. Quite why the US dither about with unusual and complex cocktails I do not know.

Is it because you're completely unqualified?

Resident · 24 Feb 2019 at 23:45

Chris Wilson said:
An overdose of morphine then nitrogen inhalation is bloodless, painless, cheap and the substances readily available. No need to over complicate euthanasia. Any vet could also put someone painlessly down with stuff in his arsenal. A nurse at my late uncle's veterinary practice chose such a means for her own suicide. A timer syringe driver did the trick, she wrote that her relatives should not be too distraught, she had chosen a painless and none messy exit. Quite why the US dither about with unusual and complex cocktails I do not know.

The dithering with the chemicals is apparently to avoid suffering as they shuffle of the mortal coil.

I don't get why they bother, I'm sure their victims suffered.

StriderX · 24 Feb 2019 at 23:55

Resident said:
The dithering with the chemicals is apparently to avoid suffering as they shuffle of the mortal coil.

I don't get why they bother, I'm sure their victims suffered.

It’s called being better than they are, I know it’s ever so difficult not to be psychopathic, but if we’re not bothering, then why bother with laws at all?

Again a good portion will be innocent. Any more than a single innocent having his or her organs go through rapid disfunction is one too many. And is exactly why over the many millennia of being psychotic in administering justice, we’ve landed where we are.