An Eye for an Eye
Man, I've always been a death penalty opponent. Basically because it is a law that is unfair to those that can't afford representation, and because it is unlawfully handed out - no one who ever made more than $30 grand a year has been executed.
Also, I have my religious beliefs, blah, blah, blah - anyway anyone of you that has ever argued the point with me.....
Yet today I read about a gentleman in Texas who killed his family back in '04 - and plucked out their hearts and threw them in the garbage after carrying them around in his pocket for awhile. He was convicted of murdering his wife and two kids, and stabbing himself in the heart before confessing.
Just prior to sentencing for that crime, he plucked out one of his eyes. Today, he plucked out his other one - and he ate it.
All right, the lazy among us explains that the world is a better place without this guy in it, right?
Yet why didn't he get help before he killed his family? Okay maybe no one knew the depths of his mental illness.
Yet surely we could have helped him after he plucked his first eye out, right?
Now they are sending him for mental health counseling.
You think?
Invariably there are some among us who believe that we should extinguish him now and save the taxpayers money, right?
I don't know - God help us all.
What a horrible story of a life.
Also, I have my religious beliefs, blah, blah, blah - anyway anyone of you that has ever argued the point with me.....
Yet today I read about a gentleman in Texas who killed his family back in '04 - and plucked out their hearts and threw them in the garbage after carrying them around in his pocket for awhile. He was convicted of murdering his wife and two kids, and stabbing himself in the heart before confessing.
Just prior to sentencing for that crime, he plucked out one of his eyes. Today, he plucked out his other one - and he ate it.
All right, the lazy among us explains that the world is a better place without this guy in it, right?
Yet why didn't he get help before he killed his family? Okay maybe no one knew the depths of his mental illness.
Yet surely we could have helped him after he plucked his first eye out, right?
Now they are sending him for mental health counseling.
You think?
Invariably there are some among us who believe that we should extinguish him now and save the taxpayers money, right?
I don't know - God help us all.
What a horrible story of a life.
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