Prosecutors in UK fighting to bring as much as life sentence to acid attackers

[vivster]

sc94597 said:

vivster said:
Why not just a death sentence? I doubt we need sociopaths in our society.

Yeah, I am very much opposed to the death penalty because I think it can be abused to harm disadvantaged groups and there is always the chance that somebody is innocent, but it would be hard to argue against killing somebody who does something like this with solid (video or hundreds of witnesses) evidence of their guilt, ideally in a horrific way such as pouring acid on them. 

Nah, why the effort? Prove they're guilty, slam the hammer, bring them into the back room and bullet in the head. Every second or cent we spend on sociopaths is wasted.