If any shooter was alive: death penalty or not?

State whether any perpetrators of gun crimes should get the death penalty or not if they were still alive, i.e. mainly if they didn't commit suicide. The shootings can be as short as Buell or as horrific as Beltway.

scibblewop wrote:

State whether any perpetrators of gun crimes should get the death penalty or not if they were still alive, i.e. mainly if they didn't commit suicide. The shootings can be as short as Buell or as horrific as Beltway.

i cant think of a single shooter that got death except starkweather

I assume E&D would have gotten the death penalty.

Screamingophelia wrote:

I assume E&D would have gotten the death penalty.

they were 18, they would of gotten life most likely

Dylan was still 17 at the time, I wonder if they would take that under consideration?

I always assumed with the premeditation it would be the death penalty. There probably would have been many appeals and what not, so I imagine they'd be on death row for a long time. You'd probably have to separate them from general population too.

Screamingophelia wrote:

Dylan was still 17 at the time, I wonder if they would take that under consideration?

I always assumed with the premeditation it would be the death penalty. There probably would have been many appeals and what not, so I imagine they'd be on death row for a long time. You'd probably have to separate them from general population too.

they dont give death to people under 18

Screamingophelia wrote:

Dylan was still 17 at the time, I wonder if they would take that under consideration?

Barry Loukaitis was 14-15 (can't remember which) and they still gave him a life sentence. They wouldn't care if Dylan was 17.

Given the high profile nature of the crime, Eric and Dylan would almost certainly be given the death penalty.

QuestionMark wrote:

Screamingophelia wrote:

Dylan was still 17 at the time, I wonder if they would take that under consideration?

Barry Loukaitis was 14-15 (can't remember which) and they still gave him a life sentence. They wouldn't care if Dylan was 17.

Given the high profile nature of the crime, Eric and Dylan would almost certainly be given the death penalty.

life sentences are allowed as a juvenile, but you cant get death

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I think Devin Kelly would have got the death penalty if he survived, but not Adam Lanza or Cho Seuing-Hui. Thomas Hamilton, and possibly Derrick Bird and Michael Ryan could have done if they were in a US state that had the death penalty.