prisons are over crowded as is.. he did a terrible act..mentally ill or not he should pay with his life. be done with him and anyone like him. we have buckets loads of humanity for people who need it. for his like there should be no mammy pandering or cost to the tax payer. just put him down like that fellow in Norway.

Perversely the movie Batman Begins contains the quote “criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding”.
I’m not stating an opinion it’s just horribly ironic how crime and punishment were a theme for the first movie and the trilogy as a whole really.

i take back what i said earlier about the death penalty… keep him alive for eternity… but cut his feet off, his hands off and his penis,,feed him through a straw for his remainder. Put him facing a white wall with white noise or marty whelans voice booming thru the small cell.

You know that “that fellow” in Norway wasn’t given the death penalty!?

i know.. i meant he should be put down also…but i think cutting the feet off etc is better punishment for this evil.

Breivik (that fellow in Norway) wants to be given the death penalty. He has said it on many occasions. His goal was to change Norwegian society. By showing compassion and understanding, and by treating him as a potentially mentally ill criminal, they are preventing him from attaining his goal.

Breivik wanted to provoke the authorities into overreacting and abandoning their normal way of doing things, but instead the Norwegians carried on as normal.

Gas chamber…asap..

the law states innocent until proven guilty and there is a high possability he might be insane,people dont kill people guns kill people

No Conor, I’m pretty sure it’s people that kill people.

I’d say he’d prefer the death penalty, but that’s getting away to easily… would be better to put him away so he can suffer behind bars for the rest of his miserable life.

Is there not a good Catholic among ye??? We should be praying for this lad, not willing his death! Forgiveness of someone like him may not come easy for some but through the power if Christ, even he can be reformed and become a productive and living member of society.

…and Patrick is back ….

Come on Patrick. God is not real. You’re nearly as mad as that fella Holmes. Cut off every limb he has and let him rot as a stump on the side of the road

Ffs Patrick, did you read about this at all? A 6. Year old child was shot dead! Religious nut

@Patrick Did that holy book, the bible, not say “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, it’s one of the most violent books I’ve ever read? Yes, I did read it. God was also into punnishing sinners, as he isn’t going to do the job it looks like it’s up to us.
I’m tempted to say if you think people like this can be reformed then go right ahead, you reform them. Would you like a granite or marble headstone?
This… person is innocent untill proven guilty, because thats the way our courts work, although its certain he is guilty. It would be useful to know why he did this to learn from it and help prevent future idiots doing the same kinds of things but he won’t talk. Personally I believe a trip to a hardware store for some DIY tools and he’d talk, 10 minutes with a Black & Decker and he’d tell them everything. Then shoot the fcuker. Nuff said.

Brian Walsh – that is one of the sickest comments I have ever read! You are no better than Mister Holmes. You advocate torture as a means of interrogation and that is truly disgusting.

@Connor saying ‘people dont kill people guns kill people’ is like saying people don’t stab people, knives stab people….

@Patrick Sick? While people like you would pray for the redemption of the souls of people like this fool I’d rather learn something from him to try and ensure that things like this don’t happen again. Would I use “exotic methods” to do that? Damn bloody right! The people he killed, injured and left traumatised deserve nothing less. Would I then execute him? Yes. He is without any doubt guilty and I wouldn’t allow him to grandstand as Anders Breivik did in Norway, another fool who acted in a similar way.
There have been question asked if this man is insane, after all he must be to do something like this, right? No. We tend to want to pigeon hole and want to classify things we find so abhorrent, such as this, but was Hitler, Stalin or Bashar Assad insane or were they just nasty people. This man is bad, not mad and should be removed from society.

….a very mental looking Ronald McDonald…

Ronald mc Donald on crystal meth

Mark Zuckerberg on crystal meth.

true,the death penalty always has been an oxy-moron..people are appalled by the shooters random act of violence but yet when it comes to his punishment we will counter this with our own act of violence..
“An eye for an eye and the world goes blind”

Thanks for the sense of that Ian – Death penalty, like many other suggestions here is a call for revenge, not an attempt to understand what happened and why.

I totally agree with you Will!

That’s what I was thinking too. They may have been out of green dye…

The Riddler had ginger hair in one of the films (Jim Carrey played him). Maybe that’s the look the gimp was going for

@ val I am not saying he has a pyhsciatric disorder because he is white,I honestly couldn’tcare less what his race,religion or agenda is.I don’t think any sane human being could plan and carry out something this horrendous.

I’m only talking in general Juliana. Media and all are talking about him need psychiatric help as if its an excuse for what he done. I’m just making the point that if he hadn’t of been white, mental stability would be very far down their list of things to discuss about him.

What I meant to say was, I wasn’t making the mentally stability comment in reference to your post, twas directed at people in general, the media etc.

i agree… and very very slowly.

death penalty never the answer,too easy a way out for him.i would rather he spends the rest of his natural life being passed around as a jailhouse bitch,rapists in prison would love that red hair…

I agree!

The death penalty is too quick and prison isn’t enough punishment. Sure he’d be treated better than people who have committed lesser crimes because they will fear for his safety.

There should be no compassion for him. He has got the attention that he was looking for and he didn’t even deserve that.

I don’t think beating him to within and inch of his life on a regular basis is going to bring the victims families any comfort,it’s wont bring back their kids

Of course it’s never going to bring the victims back but it would bring their families the justice that they deserve.

These people innocently went to the cinema and never made it home because of him. He’s a sick and twisted individual who was looking for attention and he’s got it and now he’s even sympathy from gullible people who want to see the good in everyone.

That’s a nice little thought but realistically, not everyone has good in them! You don’t have to be insane to be a murderer

For me,your solution of death sentence doesn’t really solve anything.
Doesn’t bring any one back and he probably has a death wish anyway so wouldn’t view it as a real punishment.

Better to keep them locked up for life so they really are punished. Also could then be used for proper psychological study to find out what makes these people “go bad” and see if they can be spotted earlier.

The problem with locking him up is sooner ( if he lived here it would be very much sooner) or later some do-gooder will get this nut set free. nWhy not put him of of his misery.

“Too many murderers getting away with being mentally ill”
Is there anyone who murders who isn’t mentally ill in some way. Surely taking a life regardless the reason is detached for sanity?

I agree about the automatic weapons these are people killers plain and simple.

Agreed every murderer is some way touched by mental illness but it still doesn’t make it right. And yes if they kept him in prison he could oneday be freed and the public run the risk of a repeat performance.

Plus the cost of housing such an inmate for x number of years would be attrocious. He’s probably gonna live for 60-70 years. He’s hardly gonna suddenly open up to a shrink if he escapes the death penalty.

How narrow minded for one who is so sane, mental illness is problematic in society and not to be judged as that is the root of the problem!!!

Hand him over to the far right. Train him up and make him president. :)

Vile!

Too soon?

That idea just plain sick not to mention disrespectful to those who died!