I was just remembering when Richard Ramirez aka the Nightstalker died of natural causes course he was suppose to be executed years later. It is stupid they wanted to kill him but wait years for that. Not that I would have wanted it though. He is facing his rightful punishment now.
I think the better punishment for a crime like what Penn's character did would be to put him through what his victim and their family is going through. First he would see what their lives were like then up till their deaths, feel what the girl went through when she was being raped. The boyfriend watching so helplessly then killed, both of them. Then he feels the parent's pain about losing their child, seeing the men that killed them and all that. He has to feel it over and over and over till he is numb with regret, that should be punishable enough without killing him. If anything he might want to kill himself, who knows. All I know is that if their should be a punishment in jail, I would recommend that the guilty person is placed under a drug or something that will make him feel what his victim and their loved ones goes through both before and after the murder.
Glad to get a reply from you. The shooting at the Connecticut elementary school, I posted on FB that prayers should be said for not only the victims and their family but for the shooter and his family too. Got a lot of stuff that was worse then what I got from here. I did pray for him and his family, I prayed that God show him what he did was wrong. I believe God spares those that were mentally ill.
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highpriestess32
10 years ago
I read the book about Ramirez. I had the movie too but it wasn't very good! I have all manner of crime films based on true crimes but a lot of them are over-dramatised for effect which I find ridiculous since they don't require any elaboration. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was unbelievably far-fetched. I mean in the movie they had Henry kill his side-kick Ottis and decapitating him in a bath. Ottis met no such fate - he went to jail as did Henry lee Lucas!
Some are better at sticking to the facts. The Dahmer one was quite accurate but the soundtrack and dialogue is a bit poor (and a bit cheesy lol)
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red_rackham_77
10 years ago
Serial killers are interesting to write about and watch. I still oppose the death penalty very much though. Last film I saw about a serial killer was Hannibal Lecter but that is all.
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highpriestess32
10 years ago
That's a great story, I love all of the Hannibal films!
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red_rackham_77
10 years ago
Me too, I still wonder if he hadn't been kidnapped with his little sister then tricked into eating her would he have become the monster that he became?
Same question about the Nightstalker, I still wonder if people become evil because they were influenced or is it like what Dexter said: that there is a monster in us and we need to be friendly with it? Something like that I think.
Some say evil is a mental illness like what happen to the elementary school in Connecticut, Columbine school and all those public shootings done by these shooters who kill people then themselves. Part of me believes that, another part of me just thinks that evil is in us but thank God, we have a choice to do evil or not.
I look at my nephew and pray that he sees there is good and evil in the world and that he finds the beauty in the world and sees that good is better then evil.
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highpriestess32
10 years ago
I guess we are all capable under the right conditions of committing atrocities. Even the most tolerant and law-abiding folks have succumb to crimes of passion, for example. If a person loves another so implicitly and then faces the pain and humiliation of betrayal and is goaded to a crescendo of rage then anyone is arguably capable of overstepping the mark. That's why these crimes are often treated less severely and more compassionately depending on the circumstances.
The fictional Hannibal was a very interesting case because he despised the rude and yet seemed so composed and in control for much of the time which is why, looking back, it's almost uncharacteristic of Hannibal to attack that nurse in such a brutal way as seen on the CCTV footage by Clarice.
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