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If a man kills, cooks and possibly eats his girlfriend should he receive the death penalty or the mental ward?

TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday.

Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called 911 on Saturday and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body parts at his mother's home, said Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith.

When authorities arrived at the home, they found Shearer's mutilated body, one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a fork sticking out of some human flesh sitting on a plate on the kitchen table.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/06/texas.slaying.ap/index.html


    




Mickey
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Aren't most people that commit murder some type of "crazy?" If this guy had enough sense to call 911 (the number to report crimes), I would guess he has enough sense to pay for it. Execute the sicko!


lala girl
death


Aabha A
i'm so creeped out right now... i think the mental ward


Tina T
DEATH


redhotboxsoxfan
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It being Texas, it will be the death penalty for sure, crazy or not.


fsfa
He should be put down immediately


Kalee L
if it where me i would give this man a death penalt. on to the eletric chair i would say


1 free American
drag him out back and throw a bullet into his brain


jeselynn_81
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the logical answer would be after a great deal of counseling and study... he should be killed

im sorry. no other punishment is appropriate for a man to
do such a thing to a woman he was supposed to of loved.


matt h LOVES PEPSI YUM YUM
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i would have to say the mental ward


♥My baby is here!!!♥
kill him!


Lance
An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth(i suppose he is going to hell soon)


stayc
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Inhumane.
This is where i completely stand behind lethal injection.
Wow.


Mike
Maybe he should have his own gourmet cooking show on cable!! Whether or not he eats human flesh is irrelevant...the girlfriend is nonetheless DEAD! The crime isn't eating human flesh, the crime is butchering the girlfriend.


beachbabye50
The death penalty. Especially because he realized what he was doing enough to call the cops (so he knew it was wrong) he should not be admitted to a metal ward, not that there isn't something mentally wrong with him, there is just nothing that can be fixed or changed by a mental ward.


Elliot
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Well that depends whether he's insane, doesn't it? Perhaps he cooked and ate her because it occurred to him that he couldn't get away with murder, and doing something apparently crazy might be the best way to minimise the cost of a conviction. In that case the cannibalism, though perhaps not the murder, was a fairly rational response and not particularly indicative of insanity.


Pooks
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something like the Jeffrey Dahmer case...


freedombird2772
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That is beyond sick! Mental hospital my ***. He deserves to fry for what he did.


G_Pheezie
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We should brainwash him, implant a bomb into his thy, along with a tracking device and send him over into Pakistan or Afganistan to look for Bin Laden or any other high level Al Queda operatives. Once he finds them, we should remotely detonate the bomb for a little payback.


shamrock girl
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Legally he would need a proper evaulation to determine if he has a mental illness. If he doesn't and just did this because he's a psycho freak, he needs to die!


Nvr2soon
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The fact that it's Texas, I would say he's going to be fried not boiled.
If it was a liberal state, they would dig and dig to see why this poor fellow would do such a dastardly deed and try to get him counselling


Robinmp
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Extremely insane and should be kept from society somehow.


caleb_and_me1
death penalty. i would say both but you can't put someone on death row if they are in a mental facility.


Ecko
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my gut feeling is that this man is using the "mental" label as a get out of jail free card, it just seems pre meditated, did he actually consume any of his bird! or was it just "set up", whatever course of action is taken against him, he definately needs to be off the streets, he's a bad un


Naomi
Oh wow! This almost sounds like a joke so this must be pretty sick! Kind of reminds me of Hannibal Lectar. I think death penalties are an easy way out for a person. Especially where they don't suffer they just get injected. I think he should NOT be put in a mental hospital because all the other patients are just as bad and he will probably just sit in a little cubical room for the rest of his life. I think he needs to be put into a hardcore jail (the ones we see on tv) ah but the other part of me sees this poor young guy who obviously has mental problems getting tortured by rough house men... I don't know I guess I will leave this to the authorities! =)


terri_stuck_on_a_rock
Both!


M v
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He should be placed at the zoo with the rest of the wild animals.


svenlacrosse
mental ward. he will become worse and hate life. killing him will only make it easier. JMO


princesscarlajo21
i think if he knew what he was doing the whole time and knows it was wrong he should b on death row. but if he didnt know and hes mental then he should b n a mental hospital the rest of his life. not for just 5 years then he gets out.


Kara's BFF
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mental ward, who is crazy enough to eat other people?....ewwwwww


pokerfaces55
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at the very least a life time subcription to rolaids


jojo
Oh my god how that sad don't do that eat of those girl bodys why dangers bad man going to eat of those parts cut up out of bodys than cook. Oh lord that bodys nasty bodyfood will going to make me trow up my god I don't like eat that that person body hell no need eat only foods meats,seafoods veggis fruit meat not don't that person bodys that very crazy killer man it very stupide crazy. Your sick dangers mad man. It very very crazy oh my g





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