I pretty much avoided the trial for the most part. It's kind of a waste in my opinion. The entirety of the trial was whether he was going to get the death penalty. All of it. They could have got this kid to agree to life, no parole, not a chance of anything ever, no trial, signed and done, and it could have been over with, before it even began. The fact is, the majority of people around here don't like the death penalty anyway, in general AND in this specific case, but it's federal, so that doesn't matter so much, except in the actual practice of getting this man his requisite death by whatever is legal at the time he gets his death. Instead, millions and millions were spent on his trial, and countless more millions will be spent on the innumerable appeals that will go on over time, because the death penalty is a shit-show anyway, and the end result is probably gonna be the thing we could have had at the very beginning. Life in prison, no parole, except now he gets in the news every once in a while, he will have a much higher profile, he will get fucking SYMPATHY from people for christ's sake, and everyone involved will have to relive this in some form or another for the rest of their goddamn lives.
All this for the show of it.
Oh well. Justice.
