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Did Bundy deserve the death penalty?


i'm in two minds about this... i just dunno...i just think underneath, he may have been a good guy.

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Personally, i dont believe in the death penalty under any circumstance. Yeah he 'seemed' like a good guy, but thats what everyone that ever met him(that didnt die) said. He was a very good people person, good talking, charming, good looks. And he knew this, and thats why he could lure his victims easier than say Dahmer. In all possibility he was a good guy, maybe a model prisoner, he did confide in FBI's Special Agent William Hagmaier calling him 'best friend'. But it makes you wonder was it all a show? To make people think 'he seems alright to me' Its rarely seen, what Bundys real rage looked liked. Just some clips of him being a dick in the courtroom and to guards thats it. The other side was in those dorm rooms, and in those woods. He was a conflicted man, probably wanting his good side, more than the other, most SK's do. Sad demise, for a man, just think he was really smart, if he hadnt gone down that path, wonder what he could have done to contribute to society? Anyway death penalty is wrong he and others shouldnt be executed, sends no meaningful message, and makes those morbid weirdos that actually watch it happen no better than Bundy or the rest. These people should be locked up for life no doubt and be study extensivly, to help us with better understanding sociopaths, seriel killers, etc. It would be more helpful to society, and a better way to be spending money. Sry for long reply.

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Killing people is wrong, m'k? Matters not if it's the state doing it, or some evil soul. Do. Not. Kill.


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Yes, he deserved the death penalty. It's the only guarantee he'd never kill again. He escaped jail not once but twice. As to the cost of the death penalty, if we didn't let the appeals process drag on for years and years, it wouldn't cost so much.

Now, if there were as many female serial killers out there killing as many men as there are vice versa, I suspect some of you guys would feel differently about the death penalty. I didn't read all the messages on here but I read several and I can't believe how some of you seem to show sympathy for that bastard Bundy. Oh, he could've been somebody who made something of his life. Oh, he took the wrong path. Ya think??? Manson also took the wrong path. I have no sympathy for Ted Bundy at all. None in any way, shape or form. Only for his victims and their families. He had years to dole out information but held onto it for his own selfish reasons. Good riddance to him.

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Did he deserve the death penalty? Are you insane? Anybody who murders 40 sorority girls should get the congressional medal of honor.

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He definitely deserved the death penalty. He took many lives during his fury and he didn't deserve to stay alive and in prison for the rest of his life. I am glad about the outcome.

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I hope Bundy repented of what he did before his execution.

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He didn't. He was incapable of empathy or sympathy for his actions or how they affected other people. He was a classic sexual sadist pyschopath, without conscience or remorse.

The only remorse he would have been capable of feeling would be remorse at his own capture, but otherwise he objectified his victims and saw their deaths as incidental to him fulfilling his rape/murder fantasies.

All of this is irrelevant however, to the question of his deserving the death penalty. Either you agree with the death penalty, in which case there is no one more deserving of it than Bundy, or like me you are an opponent of capital punishment.

Personally I believe that Bundy deserved life without the possibility of parole. I believe he should have been locked away for the rest of his life, and only occasionally wheeled out from his cell for people to interview or study him. My reasons for believing this are outlined in some detail above :o)

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I say all of the politically correct jargon lasts until they are in the arms of that ruthless killer, them or someone they love. There is a difference between crimes of passion, manslaughter and Killing for physical pleasure. Death for them is like masturbating it is a necessary thing in order to feel release.

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How does the distinction between a crime of passion and a serial killer killing to fulfil their fantasies have anything to do with whether or not Bundy deserved the death penalty?

If you remove them from society permanently, by imprisonment without the possibility of parole, then you have made society safe from them, and you are punishing them for their crimes. The argument, "just wait until its you or one of your relatives" is an emotive one that has nothing to do with the morality of state sanctioned killing.

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The death penalty is for protection and for punishment! Even with serial killers in jail they still could seriously hurt or kill the security guards in prison. Serial killers like bundy are ruthless killers, it wouldn't matter to them. They're in prison anyway, what more can we do to them? The death penalty! There might be a lot of potential murderers out there that decide to resist their urges because they don't want to die.

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There might be a lot of potential murderers out there that decide to resist their urges because they don't want to die.


This is a fallacious argument. Almost all murders are either pre-meditated, which means someone has thought through all the implications and decided to proceed anyway, or in the heat of passion, when no one is thinking about consequences of their actions.

Most homicide detectives will tell you that murder is mostly a crime of passion, and that the death penalty will not deter that kind of murder. The death penalty in certain circumstances will actually encourage the criminal to kill others so as not to leave witnesses.

For example, a armoured car robbery. A gang of organised, motivated theives taken down an armoured car. They have no intent to kill any one, but one of the guards makes a play and one of the gang members shoots and kill him. Under those circumstances, the rest of the gang are far more likely to kill the other guards so as not to leave witnesses to their capital crime of murder, than they are to leave those witnesses behind. If their punishment is simply longer in prison, they are less likely to commit the additional murders since they weren't planning on killing the guards in the first place.

The death penalty acts as no more of a deterrent than life without the possibility of parole.

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I don't agree with the death penalty. I understand they act deranged and they're not safe in society but killing them doesn't make us any better than them. I understand though the people, relatives of the victims want some sort of justice but it's more like they want revenge. And it doesn't make the feelings go away that you had for your loss ones after the killer is dead.

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Not to mention he was quite skilled at escaping. Who knows how many lives this death penalty saved?

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None. He was already locked away in a SuperMax prison, from which no one has EVER escaped. Both times he escaped were from holding cells or cells in courts which were no where near as secure.

The idea that executing someone in a SuperMax prison somehow saves lives is frankly not worth considering, as the smallest amount of intelligent thought on the subject will tell you.

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A good guy?!? Hmmm . . . are you also of two minds about, say, Charles Manson? Bundy was a nice-looking and personable (when he needed to fake it) man, BUT a sadistic, psychopathic serial killer, case closed!

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Poor Ted. Society just didn't understand him, that's all.

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Being sentenced to death is getting the easy way out. I would rather die than have to spend the rest of my life in prison, but that's just me.

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