Colorado shooter to face 24 counts of first-degree murder, 116 counts of attempted murder

The death penalty would be an easy way out for this coward. Let him sit in prison in solitary confinement for 80 years. That is way worse than death.

Not really. He's incredibly mentally ill. He'd probably be heavily medicated and not even know he was in the world most of the time.

Note, I am not advocating the death penalty. I laid out in another thread why I believed that isn't much of a punishment for him either (short version: he doesn't care if he dies. He forfeited his life, either by getting shot or the death sentence afterwards, the second he made a choice to do what he did. And he knew it. The threat of death holds no punishment for him.).

And therein lies the problem: When a person is so crazy that basic humanity no longer factors into their thought processes, our concepts of punishment are rendered fully impotent. It's like Charles Manson. That dude doesn't give a **** he'll spend the rest of his life in jail. He's completely insane.