Blog post #4

I do not think that the mitigating circumstances help defray the heinous nature of crimes committed. I feel that just because the circumstances may be less severe or serious it should make up for anything else. A crime is a crime and the things involved with that crime are just as important. Both situations of the Cheshire murders had the mitigating circumstances with the heinous nature of crimes.

I think that the the prosecutors sought to bring the defendants to trial instead of accepting the guilty pleas because in a way, if they did that then it would be giving them what they wanted, and do you really want to give the criminal what they wanted when they did just awful things to other people? I think that the opportunity to execute the defendants was too much to pass up, because this had been kind of the perfect case to do it to. One benefit of accepting the offered guilty pleas is that they would be saving money because giving people the death penalty if way more expensive. Negative effects of seeking the death penaltly is that more money will be spent and that criminals families will never be able to see their loved one again, the family is not the ones that committed the crimes so why should they be punished.

The role that mental health issues play in cases such as the Cheshire murders is that sometimes you have to take it into consideration, it may help the process. I don't think their sentence should be any less but I feel their mental health issues should be considered because there is a reason for the way they are the way they are. We as a society should just deal with the two types of systems because that is the way it works.