12 shot dead at 'Dark Knight Rises' screening in Aurora, Colorado

[Hovik]

What I really hate in this situation there's no way man can truly bring justice to all the victims of such a horrible crime.

Agreed ... but giving the perp the death penalty is a step in the right direction.
(and before you all go ape shit on me ... what if it was your son or daughter that you never got to see again because this guy shot him/her in the head at a movie theater?)

Without spinning this into another divergent discussion on the ethics of the death penalty, I will say that I do not agree that this individual should be given the death penalty. Looking at it from the hypothetical point of view you provided, I would say the same thing; whether it's my own child or someone else's child, I would still not condone the state-sanctioned killing of any individual.

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More psychopath than sociopath, but possibly a psychotic break. That's what seems to fuel a lot of spree killings or mass murders. There is the possibility that whoever did this did it for fun, or just to cause as much pain as possible.

Mm, certainly a possibility. I simply cannot fathom (having a relatively healthy brain and such) how somebody could do something so heinous.