- DC Sniper Executed
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nighthawkal
- November 11th, 18:39
The DC Sniper who went on a rampage in the Washington, DC Area, for weeks in 2002, finally met justice last night. He was put to death by lethal injection, which is a much more peaceful way to die, than the way most of his victims went- being unexpectedly gunned down.
When I heard that he was going to be executed, I was surprised that it happened this fast for him. Usually, it takes 15-30 years for a killer to finally be put to death, and many times, these killers end up dying in prison before they can even give them the needle of death. The only other killer, I remember, in recent history, receiving the death penalty this quickly was Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bomber, and that was probably because his story was a major national story which offended everyone, while most of the time, heinous acts of murder are usually only local stories. It took 15 years for them to finally put Danny Rawling, the Gainesville Murderer of 1990, to death, and that was even unusually fast.
I think that they need to make the death penalty process faster and that it should be a rule of thumb, instead of the exception, for cold-blooded, First Degree Murderers to receive the death penalty. We have DNA evidence now, so finding the real killer in many situations is possible. These days, we are not grasping at straws and hoping we found the real killer because DNA can give us the real answer. One thing that makes the death penalty unfair is that it is so rarely used these days and that someone has to do something extremely heinous like blow up a building with hundreds of people in it, terrorize a city for weeks, or kill at least 30 people in some bizarre way, in order to even receive it. Once someone has intentionally killed another human being, they have ceded their right to live.