The Death Penalty...Is it right?

So what should be done with this fella?
Only two minor arrests. He is a butcher both literally and figuratively. He took the life of a human being, then carved her up nice and neat.

MINEOLA, New York — A man was jailed without bail Saturday, one day after he was arrested on charges he dismembered his neighbor and drove around with her severed head in the trunk of his car.

Evan Marshall, 31, of Glen Cove, New York, was arraigned on second-degree murder in the brutal slaying of Denice Fox at her home inside an exclusive gated community in Glen Cove. Police said Marshall kept the victim's body parts inside several trash bins in the basement of his home — except for the head, which was in his 1990 Toyota.
The 57-year-old Fox was a retired school teacher, and authorities offered no motive for Thursday's gruesome slaying. Marshall had no violent criminal history, with arrests only for petit larceny and driving while intoxicated, authorities said.
He was arrested Friday after driving his car back to his home, where police were waiting. Two large carving knives were recovered at the crime scene, police said.

On Thursday, Fox's daughter called Glen Cove police after discovering her mother was missing and finding blood in the vestibule of her mother's home. Police canvassing the neighborhood were allowed into the home where Marshall lived with his mother, and soon made their grisly discovery. Marshall also was suspected of using his car to run down a woman walking on a sidewalk about a 1 mile away from the Fox home on Thursday morning. The unidentified woman was hospitalized, but her injuries were not life-threatening.

On another note, perhaps the death penalty would be more justly applied if it was administered no more than two years after the crime. No more sitting on death row for ten plus years.

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by waste gate

So what should be done with this fella?
Only two minor arrests. He is a butcher both literally and figuratively. He took the life of a human being, then carved her up nice and neat.

On another note, perhaps the death penalty would be more justly applied if it was administered no more than two years after the crime. No more sitting on death row for ten plus years.

I agree. If you are going to have a death penalty it should be administered quickly. When the UK had the death penalty, the convicted person had one appeal to the Home Secretary, if that failed, after three clear Sundays the convict would hang. Basically between trial and execution would be no more than three weeks.

Nemo

[August]

I oppose the death penalty. Not because i have anything against giving killers a dose of their own medicine, heck if it were up to me i'd go back to public hangings and sell tickets, but rather because i don't want to see an innocent man or woman executed.

If it's prison for life (real life without parole, not the Euro "couple years and out" version) then at least if evidence comes to light that clears the person we're not pardoning a corpse. Once a person is executed the point becomes moot.

Originally Posted by August

...but rather because i don't want to see an innocent man or woman executed...Once a person is executed the point becomes moot.

And that is the one thing I do agree with. If someone is to be executed the evidence must be incontrivertible, and that's sometimes hard to establish.