The most common method of mass murder is the use of firearms. Adam Lanza pushed his way through a locked glass door at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He went through the entire school, stopping in several classrooms and killing twenty students between the ages of six and seven, eight staff members and, finally, killed himself when the police (Ignacio Blanco) arrived. Another method of mass murder is stabbing. In 1996, Richard Speck broke into a house on the south side of Chicago and took eight women hostage. He beat and raped them before stabbing them to death (Ignacio Blanco). Drowning is a strange method that is not commonly used for mass murder. However, Andrea Yates used a bathtub in her home to methodically drown all five of her children, one by one. He placed four of the children on the bed and left the oldest floating in the tub (Ignacio Blanco). Poisoning is also a strange method of mass murder, but it is the one used in 1978 to kill members of Jim Jones' cult. Jim Jones forced over nine hundred of his followers to drink purple Flavor Aid laced with cyanide (Ignacio Blanco). Every murderer must be punished for what he has