Reply #13: That's somebody I might feel deserves the DP.

[Heywood J]

I doubt there's any way to rehabilitate someone with that many screws loose, nor would punishment be likely to mean anything to him if he's that fucked in the head. There'd be no way to ever guarantee he wouldn't do it again, and considering that this was unprovoked and he didn't know the victim, no way to ever guard against the possibility should it arise.

Who's to say he wouldn't freak out on his fellow inmates like this, and mutilate someone serving a lesser sentence, someone who would be eventually going back to society? I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for this nut - or the resulting wrongful death suit. Drugs aren't an excuse - anything he could have taken to make him do that has likely caused brain damage of some sort.

As a taxpayer, I wouldn't want my money being used to warehouse someone with no hope of rehabilitation, whom forty witnesses saw committing a crime like that. This is truly like having a rabid pit bull.