The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.