During his closing arguments Tuesday, Alcala -- a onetime photographer and “Dating Game” contestant who acted as his own attorney in this trial -- asked jurors to spare him the death penalty, saying they would become killers themselves if they sent him to death row and arguing that the sentence would lead to decades of appeals.
By assigning the death penalty, “you become a wannabe killer in waiting,” Alcala told jurors before playing a portion of “Alice’s Restaurant,” a rambling 18-minute Vietnam War protest song by folk singer Arlo Guthrie. In the section played, a man being drafted for war tells a military psychiatrist:
“Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth...I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.”
I wish I was a juror on that case, because at that time I would have stood up and asked, "Your Honor, may I pull the damn switch now?"
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This from the guy who, by the time he appeared on the Dating Game, had already committed three of the five murders he was just convicted of.
Maybe the whole Dating Game thing makes a bigger impression on me than it should, but I can't get over the fact that a murderer and convicted baby-raper made it onto the show.
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