Jullisa: As most people recall, January 8th 2011 marked the Tucson shooting tragedy. Twenty-four year old Jared Lee Loughner was responsible for killing six people and leaving thirteen injured outside of a local grocery store. Congressman Gabriel Giffords miraculously survived a gunshot to the head, but not all were so lucky. He is also responsible for the death of nine year old Christina Greene, Congressional Aid Gabe Zimmerman and Federal Judge John Roll. The trial recently took place and he was said to be mentally incompetent, diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was sentenced to seven life terms, six for murder and one for attempted assassination of a member of Congress, along with fourteen years for the other attempted murders. However, some ASU students disagree with the sentence he was given. Amongst these students is Emily Michelle Robertson, a freshman living on the Tempe Campus.
Emily Robertson: I think Loughner should have got a worse sentence than what he did. He killed an innocent nine-year-old girl, along with so many other people who did absolutely nothing to him to deserve that. Being mentally incompetent is no excuse to just go off and kill random people because you feel like it.
Jullisa Sanchez: What do you think would have been a reasonable sentence for Lougner?
Robertson: I think he should have gotten the death penalty for sure. For taxpayers to pay for him to live his life watching TV and getting free meals is ridiculous. Might as well just pay for him to die; he deserves it after all the tragedy he has caused.
Jullisa Sanchez: Arizona State students feel very strongly about the lack of justice in this case, one can only hope that something like this never happens again.
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