"Simply stated, civilized society recoils in horror at the image of the abject fear and terror that Jessica experienced in her final, conscious minutes of life." -- Judge Ric Howard====
When I was little, every kid believed in the Boogie Man. He was someone who crept around in the night and stole children from their beds and killed them. Maybe he lived in your closet.
There really is a Boogie men (Boogeyman, Bogeyman) and this week, he was given a death sentence of his own.
The monster who kidnaped a nine year old girl, raped her and tortured her, and then buried her alive in a garbage bag, got a just sentence. While I am skeptical of the death penalty, and have gradually come to think that in general it's probably a bad idea, sometimes it seems perfectly deserved, as in the malicious torture of a child. The alternative would be to lock him away for the rest of his days in a place much worse than a closet. That would be OK, too.
2 comments:
I agree with your observations re: the death penalty. I was never for it - but then you hear of some cases... There was shooting In Melbourne early this year on a Mon morning at 8am in the city. A guy was attacking a woman and forcing her out of a cab when two men came to her aid. The guy shot all three of them at point blank range - one of the helpers, a 42 year old father of three - died at the scene. This guy was a member of a bikie gang - hence the weapon. But while the bikies don't mind shooting other bikies, they don't like innocents becoming victims of their violence. So they found the offender and removed his tattoo from his forearm with an angle grinder. The guy then turned himself into police before his former gang members finished him off. My point is: maybe they should throw this Boogie Man into prison and not keep him in solitary. He wouldn't last long. Barbaric perhaps- but not officially a death penalty.
Let us know what punishment they give the guy with the erased tattoo.
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