The death penalty is one of those topics that I can debate with myself. The finality of the punishment leaves no room for reversing bad decisions that are unavoidable in any judicial system and the taking of a life after the threat has been neutralized (by life in prison for example) is counter to my beliefs. On the other hand, some people need killin’.
Then there are those who walk among us who do not deserve the death penalty; they deserve far worse.
Here’s what I mean (from CBS News):
Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26, of Cheshire, and Steven Hayes, 44, of Winsted, were arraigned Tuesday on charges of assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, arson, larceny and risk of injury to children.
Prosecutor Michael Dearington said he had not yet decided whether to pursue the death penalty.
“I know the public consensus is they should be fried tomorrow,” he said.
The state medical examiner confirmed that Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, was strangled and that her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, died of smoke inhalation. The deaths were ruled homicides.
All three women were raped, sources familiar with the investigation told both the Waterbury Republican-American and Hartford Courant. Petit (the father) was beaten with a baseball bat, thrown down the basement stairs, and then tied up in the cellar.
The girls, sources told the Courant, were tied to their beds and raped repeatedly, then left to burn after gasoline was poured around their beds and ignited.
These animals tied an 11 year old girl to a bed, raped her repeatedly, poured gasoline around her bed and lit her on fire.
These animals tied a 17 year old girl to a bed, raped her repeatedly, poured gasoline around her bed and lit her on fire.
These animals raped the girls’ mother, beat their father with a baseball bat and threw him down the basement stairs, and left them all to die in a burning house.
The death penalty?
Somehow just doesn’t seem to be enough in this case.
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