what is wrong with this?

I may be an eye sore... but the justice system has shut down.. give them both DEATH, It was premeditated.. children were involved, and older parents.... No Mercy... When you take away the punishment you take away from the crime.. I am sorry for my way of thinking... but have the bleeding hearts house them and maybe they will kill the host family..

What can be said to kill your Mother and father and wait on the rest to show up.... money is not the answer, and you the tax payer are going to pay for this...

There are all kinds of factors that go into the decision about whether to seek the death penalty. In most states, there need to be what are usually called "special circumstances" or "aggravating elements." Some things, like murder for hire, or "lying in wait" are aggravating. So is the use of torture or other special brutality. Others considerations, like diminished mental capacity, are the opposite. And it is rare to seek the death penalty when getting a conviction depends mostly on the defendant's own confession. In other words, there is a balancing test that varies with each crime.

I don't know the circumstances of these murders, but if this guy planned the murders, and particularly if he planned to murder the children, then that is very strong support for the death penalty. But if this was a case of a drunken rage or something like that (not planned in advance), life in prison without parole would me more common in most states.

And the prosecutor has another thing he has to consider: how will the jury react? Sometimes juries refuse to go along with the evidence. And there are people who will not vote for conviction if they believe the death penalty is on the table. Either they oppose the death penalty entirely, or they just don't want the responsibility of making a life-or-death decision for another person. If there is even one tiny weak spot in the prosecution's case, some jurors will jump on that one little matter. So it is easier to get a conviction when the prosecutor decides to ask only for life in prison.

I share your outrage at this crime. We need to wash our hands of people who would do such a thing. But sometimes the best solution is just to make sure that monsters like that never walk among us again. I would hate for the guy to get off on a technicality just because the prosecution decided to ask for the death penalty.

Good luck!!

For me, there is no teaching involved in the decision, no question of the penalty serving as a deterrent. It is simply a situation where the persons involved have behaved in such a heinous manner that erasing them from existence is the best thing to do. Be gone from society, faulty machines. No space for you, no tolerance. You did the ultimate intolerable act. Your own damn fault.

I just don't care if the death penalty is a good deterrent or not.

And I don't care if capital punishment would lose someone the chance to be rehabilitated.

It seems to me that a civilized society should have the right to remove killers from our midst permanently. Not as punishment, I don't care about that either. Just get rid of them. And quickly, too.

But we also have to make sure that we don't get rid of people who didn't really do it. And there's gonna be a big devil in those details. But we should get to work on it.

Unfortunately, crimes against children are not given the justice those children deserve. There is a sickness in our nation when murderers go free and pot smokers occupy those jail cells. Worse, our politicians don't even want to discuss it.

You don't teach people not to kill people, by killing people.

Let her rot in jail for the rest of her life. Why give her the mercy of death anyway?

This is one of those cases where they should even save money on the trials.

They admitted to it all. Take them out back, bullet in the head for both.

Move on.