I just watched a show on TV where they could track certain mental activity in the frontal lobes that relate to decision making where serial killers were underdeveloped. Should we treat these people like patients in the criminal justice system or as we currently have been.
2007-11-04 14:34:19 · 24 answers · asked by John D 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Anyone who is a serial killer should be extinguished upon the guilty verdict. They are not people...Look at Leopold and Loyd..thrill killers...excellent minds, etc..no. Let the families have them and deliver their own brand of punishment on anyone who took their loved ones away.
2007-11-04 14:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by CherryCheri 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Despite certain brain activity , those who can sit down ,and plan out multiple, calculated murders , while their brains focus on killing , should not be allowed to breathe one day after being found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. ... Many of those serial killers will tell you , they knew it was wrong to do it , they could not resist the urge to kill ..... why spend millions per year to treat them , and still never have them as a full productive member of society ....They should stop all the death penalty is wrong cry baby BS , and open an express lane , for murderers , and child predators/ abusers and molesters ... Anyone who commits a violent felony act such as deadly beatings , crimes against children , and murder , should not be allowed a last meal , or any right to sit in jail while I work to keep them up , find them guilty , and fry them , saves tax money , and saves the life of their next victim ....while removing the fear of the victim from being re -attacked by the same person who was released from jail .
I will never understand why America has become so wussyfied , that we allow someone who can not behave in our society to get out ,and be petted , then do the same crime again , send the criminal back through the system , to get out , get [petted again and then yet again and do the same thing for the third time , ....If you take from our society then that person should be taken from our society as well ...
There would be no repeat offenders if we do away with them the first time ...
2007-11-04 14:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by Insensitively Honest 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think we need to re-evaluate what we understand by "mental illness" before we undertake such a project.
Clearly, different people may check out physiologically and biologically healthy (no somatic damage to the brain) although they are criminals.
I believe that in the case of many serial killers, their problems are psychological and not psychiatric. Which means they don't have an illness which can be treated with pills, but they are "wired" differently than normal people. Medication and normal therapy might not work because they are not treatable. Many of them are actually very proficient in their field of work, in their community, thats why they are so efficient at avoiding detection.
What they don't have is a CONSCIENCE. Unfortunately there is no treatment yet that can awaken a conscience in a man that has none.
2007-11-05 04:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by Sasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Actually, I learned in Psychology a few days ago that serial killers really ARE psychotic or mental. I don't think anyone with a normal brain would kill enough people to have the title "serial killer" unless there is something wrong with their brain. And I don't mean that sarcastically.
2007-11-04 15:23:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course, very case would be different. But the mere fact that someone is a serial killer should not mean that he is treated as insane. I can't even think of a serial killer who successfully used the insanity defense. That's a pretty hard one to buy into when someone KNOWS what they're doing is wrong...does everything possible not to get caught...They may be "deranged," but they certainly don't deserve anything other than "hard time" for their crimes. Good question!!!
2007-11-04 14:38:25 · answer #5 · answered by Maggie D 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it still wouldn't be good enough for them though i can say on my behalf because i am not going to hide the fact i have felt the urge to kill some one it is and urge not a Fantasy the way he did it was a Fantasy. as long as my life is together or nothing happens war wise that i see fit i don't need to take part in i will all ways have some control over it i may be a sociopath for all i know but i all ways no i have some control over what i can do or what i can not every one has people like ted bundy just let it go to his head why he didn't kill some one that needs it i don't know he was apparently smart. edit i could put what i have seen done known people to do in to a book or a movie i could be rich yes weather it sells and how to go about it i don't know
2016-04-02 05:21:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!! A lot of these serial killers are very intelligent and smart these are choices they make and should not be treated as a mental patients, but as a serial killer as they are. For example, TBK I think that's what he called himself and this guy went home to his wife, children and church on Sunday after he killed someone.
2007-11-04 14:42:05 · answer #7 · answered by InTelligence 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Not being sane and being Leagaly insane are too different things.
You may not be able to control your actions, but as long as you know they are wrong the legal system considers you leagaly sane enough to go on trial.
2007-11-04 14:42:06 · answer #8 · answered by Insane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it really all depends on how they kill their victoms, if they do it in the most brutal way like blood on the walls and cieling and nothing left of the person but blood then yes they are very freaking sick and need to be locked in a mental institute and never let out. But it also depends on how they act.
2007-11-04 14:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Church 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. If they are that much of a threat to society (hence the term "serial" killer) they need the chair.
2007-11-04 14:36:49 · answer #10 · answered by IMHO 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋