DISQUS

I am so sad about the tragic death of your grandfather and the others who were murdered by this monster. Thank you for sharing this and your views on the 'justice' system.

Spiritually, I agree with you that someone's criminal behavior does not justify killing him. It does turn the rest of us into monsters. Forgiveness is what we all should aspire to, for our own well-being and the collective conscience.

However, on an intellectual and emotional level, I think the creep needed to die. Some of the execution cases seem like gray areas, but this one doesn't. This is not a productive member of society who got out of control and killed the creep who raped his child. This isn't a woman who fought back and killed the husband who beat her. (Those cases I think it's unfair to judge because everyone has a breaking point.) But this was someone who killed people for no comprehensable reason at all - multiple people! Each person killed equals many, many victims who suffered a devastating loss. And with no explanation. This was an act of evil and people like that have no business remaining on this planet.

That is my opinion, with all due respect to how you feel on the issue.