Has there been a more damning mug shot than Jared Lee Loughner’s in recent memory?

From GlobalPost:

A mugshot just released ofJared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old man accused of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others in Tucson, has become a focal point for the strong reactions felt across the United States and even global community after last weekend’s violence.

The mugshot, which shows Loughner staring straight into the camera with an unsettling smirk on his face, has been splashed across the front pages of American and international newspaper websites. As this is being written, it appears as the lead photograph on the NYTimes.com and LATimes.comslideshows and on the front page of WashingtonPost.com, BBC News, Yahoo News,The Huffington Post, The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph and other top news sites.

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On the social networking site Twitter, the mugshot has been discussed at length with people calling it “creepy” and “eery” and others pleading with the media to stop showing the photograph.

It’s at least marginally creepier than Nick Nolte’s 2002 mug shot:

Although not as “eery” as Matt Amorello’s last year:

Regardless, Loughner should be thankful that he doesn’t also have an incriminating nickname like Tooky, Ducky, or Mucko.

Here’s what the hardworking staff wrote in a television commentary a decade ago:

Tooky. Ducky. Mucko.

[In reverse order:] A spree killer, a confessed pediophile and a convicted child molester – all with factory-installed tabloid nicknames that pop up in newspaper headlines, stories, columns, photo captions, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor.

Last year a letter to the Globe said calling Gerald Amirault Tooky was “an outrageous attempt to bias the reader.”

And in fact these particular nicknames do add a salicious undertone to the details of the stories. It’s tough to say exactly why – maybe it’s the hard K sound that seems to make the nicknames fit the crime.

With Mucko, of course, you get that bonus echo of “running amok.” Whatever the reason, the names have stuck like gum on your shoe.

Tooky. Ducky. Mucko.

Maybe that’s all they deserve.

Maybe not.

Jared Lee Loughner?

From all appearances, he deserves everything he gets.

UPDATE: Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris takes the mug shot to the movies in today’s G.