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.
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.
Ok, we put them in the pillory for a couple of hours, let people throw rotten fruit at them, then put them back in the prison? Just for a week or so?
Could work. You’ll need to petition your local representative.