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@ed_blackadder_1 wrote:
How do you know they are no longer a threat. How many murderers have been released only to kill again. This lad both planned and boasted about what he was going to do and has shown no remorse, he actually said job done after he did it. This was premeditated murder not an accident spur of the moment or self defence. He knew exactly what he was doing so surely he knew what the consequences would be in fact it was what he wanted.
The teacher wont come back in 20 years and her family have to live with this for the rest of their lives.
I am not in favour of capital punishment across the board but in the case of premeditated murder proved without doubt then I think this should be the case.

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He showed no remorse ... at the time!  At that point, his body would have been flooded with adrenaline and testosterone.  His mind would have been very agitated.  This is a teen, not fully developed emotionally.

All I am saying is, in a yr, or 5, or 20, he may feel differently.  It is then that trained experts need to assess whether he has any remorse or not, and whether he is still a danger to others.

Most premediatated murderers serve far less than 20 yrs, even for crimes that involve sexual assault, kidnap (with all the psychological fear that entails, to both the victim and their family, not knowing what has happened).  Those who serve over 20 yrs have generally killed a child and it is usually not their first serious offence, and they were fully grown adults at the time of the crime.