How can you read this and NOT support the death penalty?

Why would you think we don't care about innocent victims? No, he is not insane. He was completely composed, and methodically thought out his crime before he did it. There was nothing insane about it.

Just because someone is composed and methodical doesn't mean they're not "insane" or have some other mental bug. Plus, one is obviously not in the right mind to do this in the 1st place. No rational person is going to burn some old lady alive for some thousands bucks. Then to ice it off turn himself in.

Rational is relative. To this man, what he did was perfectly rational and justified. Sure, he may say he was out of his mind now... now that he's about to face the consequences of his actions. I deny the idea that everyone who does something wrong, must be insane, because it doesn't make sense to someone else. All the evils throughout history have been committed by people who we can't make sense of their actions. That doesn't mean they were insane. It means we can't relate to their line of thinking. But just because something doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean everyone else is crazy. Are you married? Because if you are, you know that other people do things that don't make sense to you. That doesn't mean your spouse is nuts.

We have churches and charities, more than enough to help people like this lady. I wager she just was trying to help him out. As nutty as the guy is I am sure that he has slipped through the system before. I would be willing to bet there was other things that happened that he got away with when he should of been locked up and if he had of this probably wouldn't have ever happened. Interestingly, I would agree with this. I read a book on the reformation of morals. William Wilberforce is well known for fighting the slave trade, but he also was part of the reformation of morals in England. At the time murder, rape and crime was rampant. The method to control this was to make the punishment ever more gory and painful. But this didn't work. Instead, by stepping up policing and exacting punishment on lesser crimes like petty theft and vandalism, the rates of murder and rape dropped dramatically. At the same time, they also pushed a moral agenda that crime is evil and wrong. As it turns out, every rapist and murderer, is a petty thief and vandal that never got caught. As I agree we should drastically increase the police effort, and focus on punishing lesser crimes, in order to prevent future worse crimes.

It makes me sick just listening to the excuses these people make for not doing justice to a murderer.