When you look at how hard ordinary artists work without getting fair recognition for their work - Bruce Murdoch being a good case in point. Everybody who has listened knows the guys is terrific and his songs are beautiful - but no one important in the media writes about his work.

You can see there is an incentive to do a mark chapman - you get the book deal, the film about your life, the attention from society.....

I hate the idea of capital punishment - but I suppose at least Tim McVeigh didn't get to enjoy his notoriety. Mind you a lot of tese guys seem untroubled by the idea of death - many of them end the episode by turning the gun on themselves. So I suppose the capital punishment is really just surrendering to base motives within ourselves.

Like the Norwegian President said - we should not let these characters turn US into monsters.