Justification for the death penalty: a speedy trial and quicker execution.

While I sometimes have doubts about the death penalty, there are times when guilt is not questionable. This is one of those times.

This 22yo POS got upset yesterday in 7:30AM traffic outside Las Vegas and tried to pass on the shoulder (on I-215). When yelled at, he fired a shot into the other vehicle, killing an 11yo that was being taken to school. The child's step-father then rammed the POS's vehicle, forcing an accident preventing a hit-and-run (and blocking a major traffic artery for hours).

Said POS is charged with "open murder" and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.

It appears both parties were playing leapfrog in traffic, but regards shooting: there is no doubt of guilt, there is no claim of self-defense, there is no justification for pulling the trigger regardless of how pissed he was; there is no need for this POS to consume any more oxygen - an on-going danger to those around him.

The 6th Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial.
Trial on Monday, execution on Tuesday.

Of course, we all know the trial will take forever ... and if this POS can claim being a member of a privileged class, he will be released on minimum bail and eventually pardoned.

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Behind an upgraded building along the bank of Clear Creek in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
I believe both structures are gone now.

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