Duchess Of Death

A quick google search would show you that you’re incorrect and that capital punishment is much more expensive than life imprisonment… I don’t really see the point in trying to argue about something you evidently have no clue about.

https://deathpenalty.org/facts/5-myths-death-penalty/

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/URLs_Cited/OT2016/16-5247/16-5247-2.pdf

Capital cases cost more than regular cases as the defendant is allowed two attorneys as opposed to one. The defendant is also entitled to representation by experts, which could include psychologists, investigators, forensic experts and so on. A death penalty trial also takes much much longer than a regular trial and then the appeal process costs an abundance of money to ensure that innocent people are not executed, even thought we do know that innocent people have certainly been sentenced to death.

The average cost of defending in a federal death case is around 8 times more expensive than in which the death penalty is not sought. Texas, for example, is spending $2.3 million PER death row case. California, for example, would save $1 billion every five years if they abolished the death penalty and Californian tax payers pay $90,000 more each year on death row inmates than they do with regular inmates. There’s over 700 Death Row inmates in California. So much money is being wasted on death sentences that will never be carried out.

Grandmother Celebrates Killing Her Son-In-Law

On the morning of February 11th, 2014, 65-year-old Cynthia Cdebaca retrieved her gun from her purse, and shot her son-in-law Geoward Estaquio fifteen times. In a police interview afterwards, she is seen celebrating, and says ‘Oh good. Good, good, good. Oh, thank you!’

Cynthia lived in the guest house belonging to her daughter Laura, and her daughters husband Geoward, in Fallbrook, California. She claimed that Geoward was abusive, as he would spray her with a hose if he caught her smoking in the backyard and made sarcastic comments. One morning she snapped after he made a comment about what she was wearing. She proceeded to shoot him, using all five rounds in her revolver and going back to her car multiple times to reload, as he dragged himself through the house, begging for help.

With Geoward dead on the kitchen floor, Cynthia headed to a local diner for breakfast, before ditching the gun and spending nearly two hours at a Temecula casino. Detectives found her later that afternoon at a Fallbrook coffee shop.

Detective: Did he say anything to you?

Cynthia: ‘Oh grandma, I love you.’

Detective: Did you check to see if he was dead?

Cynthia: I didn’t care.

Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe did not dispute the abuse allegations, but argued that Geoward’s behavior was not life-threatening, that Cynthia’s actions were not justified, and that they were premeditated. Three weeks before the shooting, she took target practice at an Oceanside shooting range.

The Vampire of Kraków

Karol Kot was born on the 18th of December 1946 in Kraków, Poland. In Karol’s early childhood, he had very strange ‘hobbies’ such as going to the slaughterhouse to watch pigs getting butchered - he also killed animals himself. Karol also enjoyed studying anatomy books and imagining wounds that could be inflicted on people. 

In September of 1964, when Karol was only 17 years old, he would attack his first victim - an elderly woman. He stabbed her in the back, but luckily the woman managed to survive. That same month, Karol attacked two other elderly woman on different occassions - one survived, but the other one, 77-year old Marii Plichty, was stabbed to death. Two years later in February of 1966, Karol stabbed an 11-year old boy named Leszka Całka to death. He attempted another murder in April that same year by stabbing an 8-year old girl - she survived. Karol Kot also tried to kill people by poisoning, he would go to a bar and poison the drinks with arsenic, but without success.

How Psychologists Know If You’re Faking 

If you’re going to be a forensic psychologist, you will often deal with criminals who’re working on their NGRI defense. A defendant claiming the defense is pleading “not guilty by reason of insanity”  or “guilty but insane or mentally ill” in some jurisdictions which, if successful, may result in the defendant being committed to a psychiatric facility for an indeterminate period. Sounds better than prison, right? In his article, Thomas MacMillan writes about tricks psychologists use to determine whether someone is faking insanity.

On May 25, 1979, in New York 6-year-old Etan Patz suddenly vanished on his way to the school bus. 38 years later, on February 14, 2017, Pedro Hernandez was found guilty of kidnapping and felony murder. 

“In my time in the courtroom, several questions I’ve heard have stuck out. Like, “Do you have any major problem communicating with other planets?” And, “Do you sometimes have strange feelings in your body? Do these feeling only occur on Tuesdays?” And how about, “Have you ever felt that people were following you? Did you experience an increase in appetite during those times?

Malingering is a fancy word for faking illness in order to gain an advantage of some kind. The strange questions that I heard in court are part of a test called the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms, second edition. The SIRS-2 comprises about 45 minutes’ worth of questions designed to catch people who claim to be experiencing things of a variety or intensity that truly mentally ill people actually rarely experience.  “Have you ever felt that people were following you? Did you experience an increase in appetite during those times?” In reality, it’s quite unlikely that a paranoid person would feel an increase in appetite. So claiming to experience those symptoms together is an indication there may be some fakery afoot. Other questions are designed to trip up would-be malingerers who have erroneous notions about mental illness. Saying yes to the question about communicating with other planets, for instance, is a red flag because that’s just not a delusion that people with mental illness generally have.

On October 31, 2017 a police search for a missing Tokyo woman who had sought a suicide partner led them to a townhouse with nine mutilated bodies and coolers containing heads covered in cat litter, Japanese media reported Tuesday.

The townhouse tenant, a 27-year-old man identified as Takahiro Shiraishi, was arrested on suspicion of murder in an investigation that escalated into fears that he was a serial killer.

The decomposing remains of eight women and one man were found in the apartment.

Mr. Shiraishi admitted to investigators that he had killed nine people since moving into the apartment in August, dismembered them in the bathtub, and threw some body parts in the garbage, according to the Japanese press accounts.

Ian Brady’s cremation

Ian Brady carried out the Moors murders together with his girlfriend Myra Hindley. They had made five victims, all aged between 10 and 17. At least four of those victims were also sexually assaulted. Ian and Myra were both sentenced to life in prison.

‘’When the time came, I had to do it.’’