In principle I am opposed to the death penalty. However, the first time I saw a Court TV show aobut that case I felt very strongly that she (moreso than her husband) really shouldn’t be entitled to use oxygen that someone else might need. It troubled me. And hers was the name that sprang immediately to mind when I read the thread title.
Albert Speer. It was ridiculous he got 20 years when he not only worked so many Jews/Poles/Russians to death as slave labor but men under him who carried out his orders were executed.
Calvin Finley. Shot an armored car guard point blank in the head in a crowded Walmart then walked out. Plea bargained for life without parole.
This fucker. He got a lot of media attention here in SoCal, and was a common topic of conversation for a long time both after his capture and during his trial. He committed these crimes when I was a teenager and he’s still alive. It just boggles the mind.
Local crime: Laurie Tackett and Melissa Loveless, both teen girls who abducted & torture-killed a 12-year old girl who was involved with the latter’s GF.
Seeing Henry Lee Lucas reminded me of Ottis Toole, his occasional killing partner & an even viler POS.
The UK’s favorite couple- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Any idea what became of Lattie’s brother, Cornelius Abraham? I just read Bob Greene’s 1999 column about being invited to his graduation.
Excellent username/post combo. 
I have this little feeling that Christopher Walken [who was also on the boar, and was supposedly having an affair with Natalie Wood] and Robert Wagner got into a fight over the affair, and Natalie Wood got hit and killed, and they conspired to keep it under wraps.
If I were still in favor of the death penalty, I would say Leopold and Loeb.
Ted Kennedy
I’d never previously heard of him. I am grateful I hadn’t.
That Wiki article is so difficult to follow. If you go to the para that says:
In 1976 Bittaker was hired as the manager for the Holiday Theater in the Reseda area of the San Fernando Valley. Bittaker had a rough demeanor, hot temper, and some employees, as it turns out, were right about being cautious of him.
You have him working. Next you have him being given an assessment and being released.
(Apart from that it is difficult to imagine why he was given a management job anyway).
I feel dirty after reading those links. Excuse me while I scrub my brain.
I’ll go a bit further back. We captured this murderous war criminal during the Yorktown campaign at the end of the American Revolution, but he was paroled, returned to Britain, became an MP and campaigned for the retention of slavery. The bad guy in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot was based on him. A truly unpleasant bastard: Banastre Tarleton - Wikipedia
Not to rain on your righteous anger (no sarcasm – you’re right to be angry at these losers) but my understanding is that most people don’t oppose the death penalty because they think convicted murderers would be a loos, but because the act of killing debases the state as surely as it debases an individual. If killing is wrong, it is wrong to kill in return.
I personally come down on the “don’t kill them” side but only by a hair (and that’s not the same thing as “let them go.”)
Heh, I referenced him here in the thread about old battles people still carry grudges about.
I live like 2 towns over from where Banks went on his killing spree. We’re neighbors!
And I call George Banks a real like Michael Myers. He went nuts and killed his family, and then went outside and kept killing.
From what I hear, Hitler never actually killed anyone. I think he would take the cake.
Likewise Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Sociopaths in charge of entire countries have other people to get their hands dirty.