Jared Lee Loughner Sentenced to Life in Prison: Does He Deserve Life or Death?
Jared Lee Loughner, the man behind the Arizona shootings, which killed six people and injured 12 others (including former US representative Gabrielle Giffords), has finally been given a sentence -- and it's life in prison.
US District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Loughner, 24, to seven life terms plus an additional 140 years in prison for the shooting, which occurred back in January 2011. Loughner previously pleaded guilty under an agreement that guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole -- instead of getting the death penalty. Do you think Loughner deserves life in prison -- or the death penalty?
GUARDIAN.CO.UK reports:Loughner, who pleaded guilty to attack in Tuscon in 2011 that left six dead and 12 other including Gabrielle Giffords injured
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The Death Penalty is just state sanctioned revenge, so people should be imprisoned and if they are deemed to be mentally unstable they should be kept in a secure hospital and treated. The other thing that is bad about the death penalty is the fact that people are kept on Death Row for years that in itself is cruel and unusual punishment and negates the argument that the death sentance is better than keeping them in prison for years as the average stay on Death Row for an inmate is 13 years and the longest stay on Death Row was 34 years. Side: Life
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I don't think he really deserves the death penalty. I mean after all the people he killed & injured, does he really need an easy way out? Besides, life in American prisons is rather mild compared to those in other countries; free food, free clothes, free healthcare... I think he deserves to spend the rest of his life knowing what he did, and being guilty for it. Psychological torture. Side: Life
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