I think that once he decided to up the ante from rape to murder, he should have also chosen to go out in a blaze of glory, not waving a white flag.
I mean...if you're so against going to jail that you shoot four people (killing three) why would you even consider giving yourself up?
I'm not saying he needed to shoot it out with the cops, but he could have finished the deed by killing himself and saved the taxpayers the expense of a trial, incarceration, and ultimately execution...
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