the individual states my provide the definitions & criteria in which such statutes shall apply.
if the requisite number of persons die as a result of any such incident or incidents the case shall be tried as a death penalty case, and any voluntary pleas to such charges shall result in the imposition of the death penalty, the same as if a guilty verdict were returned on trial.
execution shall take place within 3 months from a guilty finding or plea.
all court proceedings, including preliminary appearances and arraignments shall be filmed and recorded, and transcripts prepared swiftly. two death penalty qualified defense attorneys shall be appointed to represent any person accused under such a statute/in such proceeding. the local prosecutor's office shall appoint a senior death penalty qualified prosecutor in such cases, and another attorney, also death penalty qualified shall be appointed to assist the local prosecutor's office.
a check list of procedures shall be specified, and each item on the list shall be heard, as quickly as possible. no item on the check list, to include motions to dismiss for cause, for lack of probable cause, for habeas corpus, etc., shall go unheard. such list of procedures shall include items set forth by the state legislature, and by the supreme court of the state involved.
trial shall be had within two months of arraignment, unless continuance shall be applied for and approved. the state courts shall set forth the criteria to be applied. at trial, the defense team shall make all such motions related to sufficiency of evidence and proof as set forth on a prescribed list of such motions.
if the defendant is found guilty, he shall be executed promptly. the time period set forth shall give due and proper time for the defense to appeal the matter directly to the state supreme court, and shall be set on an expedited docket so that appeal may be promptly heard by the state supreme court. such appeal shall be written and argued by a death penalty appellate team, not to exceed two lawyers.
appeal to the federal courts shall be taken promptly, and only acceptance of such appeal by the federal courts shall operate as a stay of execution. execution shall be by hanging, gas, electrocution or firing squad at the defendant's choice. it shall not be delayed or stayed simply because appeal to the federal courts shall have been filed, but only upon the acceptance by the federal courts for substantive reasons of constitutional dimension.
the aim of such a process is to eliminate the elapse of time between a guilty verdict and judgment of death by the trial court.
in all such cases of the infliction of mass killings by firearms it is to be preferred that states authorize law enforcement officers considerable latitude in the use of lethal force in effecting the arrest and apprehension of a shooter if necessary. no cause or appeal to the federal courts should be allowed or encouraged in such instances.
society is paying to high a price for the molly coddling of such killers. there is no utility or justice involved in this. we should rid society of them as quickly and expeditiously as possible.
john jay @ 07.05.2022
swift execution upon guilty judgment, by plea or trial. i would prefer execution of anyone found guilty of a mass shooting/murder to be within 10 days. actually, if they marched someone from the courtroom (after a judgment of guilty) to the gallows and executed him or her, right then and there, i would prefer that even more. that is why everything, and i mean everything under case law and state and federal statute to be covered by very experienced and zealous lawyer at the trial stage, so that no reviewing court will ever have any basis to grant review.
and, a pauper's burial, or, better yet, disposal of the body at sea. let the sharks spit them out.
i want no more of this "three hots and a cot" for all the rest of a worthless life. get done with it, get rid of the killers, and get on with life. no more celebration of killing, and of killers. no mass killer of innocents should ever be lionized, in any respect.