Five people were killed in the attack on the LGBTQ bar.
The shooter who killed five and injured over a dozen more at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022 accepted a plea deal Tuesday in connection with federal hate crimes charges and was given 55 concurrent life sentences.
Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to each of the 74 charges of violating provisions of the Matthew Shepard And James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 as well as gun crimes in the Club Q shooting. Aldrich initially pleaded not guilty.
United States District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney accepted the plea agreement, sentencing Aldrich to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, to be followed by a 190-year sentence of imprisonment.
It’s times like these I can kinda understand why pillories have been a thing.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t trust the state whatsoever to put the right people into pillories, I’d support their return.
Yeah, you’re definitely that kind of person.
The kind of person who thinks that people should have the opportunities to throw rotten vegetables at assholes, but only if they’re definitely guilty? Sure.
I believe the pillory was more of a public rape facilitator.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t since the only woman someone could legally rape at the time was their wife.
A night in the stocks was considerably worse than having rotten fruit thrown at you.
Worse than murdering five queer people because you’re a bigot?
I don’t think rotten fruit to the face is an adequate punishment, but that was far from the worst part of the stocks. The worst of which would certainly constitute cruel and unusual. They have an almost quaint association nowadays but that really wasn’t the case; it’s a torture instrument. I don’t think we need to bring that sort of thing back.
It’s a moot point anyway, you’d be hanged for murder. I am not sure, but life in prison might actually be worse than that. He surely deserves an extremely harsh punishment, and it appears he’s receiving it.