Guy who shot Gabby Giffords cuts a deal

No death penalty (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Loughner pled guilty yesterday in order to avoid a possible death penalty.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/arizona-shooter-pleads-guilty-avoid-death-penalty-article-1.1130882

How do we, the taxpayers, come out on this one?  The money that would be spent on a trial and endless appeals is saved.  But we have to house and feed this monster for the rest of his unnatural life.

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Judge sez a condemned prisoner has the right to die

English: Total number of executions carried out in the USA since 1960 Source of data:http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-united-states Death Penalty Information Center - Executions in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_says_inmate_who_wants_to_be_executed_can_override_governors_death_pen/

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/08/judge_rules_inmate_gary_haugen.html

Additional background is available at the Death Penalty Information Center:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

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