Death Sentence
There’s an article on American Thinker – “Just what is the ‘magic number’?” – by Stu Tarlowe in which the sentence of Bryan Kohberger was discussed. Tarlowe wondered just how many murders was enough to justify execution. Being in Idaho, this has been a story longer than it has been at the national level.
The point of the article questioned why Kohberger wasn’t sentenced to death rather than 4 consecutive life sentences.
From a only-casually interested point of view, I’ll suggest that by pulling the death penalty off the table, the Kohberger was willing to confess to the murders. This deal included Kohberger not appealing the sentence. This saved the expense of trials, appeals, more appeals, and allowed Kohbeger to be placed in general population rather than Death Row. Kohberger will die in prison – likely far sooner than expected and by a means slower and likely more painful than either the firing squad or lethal injection.
Some people are born evil and Kohberger appears to be one of those.
Idaho switched to execution by firing squad just this year when an execution (that had had appeal after appeal for decades) was to be carried out by lethal injection but there was a problem with obtaining the “proper” drugs (why an overdose of morphine or fentanyl or some such isn’t used is beyond me). Bullets are readily available but lethal injection remains an alternative method of execution. Hanging was the primary method until 1978 when lethal injection was selected as the primary execution method.
To be sentenced to death requires a unanimous vote by jury; a single objection will change the sentence to life and there is no retrial. Rape of children under 12 is also a capital offense as is 1st degree kidnap (with circumstances) and perjury leading to the execution of an innocent person.
There are currently 8 men and one woman on death row here; two of them having been sentenced in the 1980s …
“On July 23, 2025, he was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison without parole, as well as another 10 years for burglary. He also has to pay a combined fine of $250,000 ($50,000 per count) and $20,000 combined in restitution ($5,000 per victim).” (wiki)
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The entire justice system is so polluted as to be nothing short of nonsensical.
FOUR life sentences????
Pay restitution while under life sentences?
Is that retarded or what?
And.
The taxpayers get to fund the criminals up keep until it is dead.
Not to mention the cost of the 2 years worth of mumbo-jumbo that led up to the sentence.
If a grown man with balls was in that house he could of erased the slate with a single 30 cent 9mm bullet.
There used to be a lot of men with balls and the amount of crimes was much, much lower. But things changed…..
“life” sentences are rarely for life anymore. Personally, I think he should have gone straight from sentencing to a blank wall behind the courthouse. Or a gallows (ropes are reusable) Save the trip to Kuna*. But keep in mind that prisons are an industry that need an inflow of product.
(*Kuna by virtue of mailing region. Kuna is the biggest small blip in the area but the prison is in the wastelands south of Boise. If you’re looking at Giggle Maps, those place names – Mora, Pleasant Valley, Owyhee – are railroad places, not towns.)
Agreed. The old “ten cent solution” now cost $.30 due to inflation.
Death sentence makes me nervous only because there have been so many
found-later-to-be innocent. If it’s 100% positive guilty then, yeah do it.