Reply #31: let me propose that we not

[frogcycle]

turn this into a debate over the relative merits of permanently warehousing John Gacy vs. frying his ass.

He is in prison for life, no chance of parole. Of course he was convicted not only of being a child molester but also of killing them - and there were about forty as I recall.

I think it is stupid to be warehousing him in an Illinois prison, feeding him and giving him books to read, whatever the hell they do with him. He should have gone the way of Ted Bundy long ago.

But the DP debate differs from the "one strike and you're out" question originally posed.