Tom in this case I must respectfully disagree. And it's not to muzzle the press.

As long as we continue to sensationalize the killers over and over in the news, we glorify them in their minds eye. For someone who's life has little meaning, it gives them the recognition in death that they lacked in life.

When we stop giving them the airtime they seek (whether in life or in death) they will then stop trying to be like the one before them in looking for recognition. (He considered the Columbine shooters martyrs.)

Wouldn't it have been better to ignore the killer as much as possible and instead glorify those lives that were snuffed out? Why haven't we heard more about the professor who lived through the holocaust, or the young woman who wanted to become a vet?

I believe in freedom of the press but I feel sometimes it's more judicious in the long run to not give sick minds their unjust due.