I lived in Montgomery county during the sniping spree. It was strange to see the gas stations without cars in them all the time. Some went to the extent of putting up 10 Ft high fabric blinds to make sniping their customers too difficult.
But the jury failed to do their job. Life with no parole is not the required verdict. At 18/19 years old they are old enuff to vote, smoke, join the miltary and be die for their country, drive a car etc.
What they need to do is bring back the public executions. The pathetic whiners out their did away with this so that they would not have to see the fear or the gory truth. But it was a major deterrent to the ones that would consider doing such acts. Knowing full well you would die for this made you think. Nowadays it's a proven fact they will commit the crime no matter how serious and only do time unless they have a butload of cash and can hire the heavy gun lawyers like OJ and get away with murder that way. Hell OJ even got set free.