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    Goodbye John Muhammad Hello Anthony Sowell

     I'm the first to cosign any measure that guarantees serial killers, rapists, and all other repeated menaces to society never return to the streets of freedom.
     
    The death penalty, however,  is always one I've grappled with.  It seems almost as if its a vindictively and  emotionally driven vice in most cases. Especially in large profile cases where the victims have been  many. In some cases the families appear to have taken on a  lynch mob persona. "We're going to be right there to see him take his last scumbag breath."
     
    And in most cases one can certainly understand the anger, the desire for retribution that would facilitate one arriving at this emotional destination.
     
    But are we just giving the the perpetrator a free pass out by terminating the mind and body's ability inflict retribution every day that they're are locked away? The rush to terminate could be seed that continues to sprout more of these mad men and women. Time, maybe in some cases, would result in long term evaluations of some of the diseased minds and out of the process hopefully would evolve a prescription of sorts that would curb future episodes of mayhem and mass violence.
     
    Meanwhile the families and friends return to their suffering, loss and  grief with the only solace being the perpetrator is now resting in peace. A peace I dare say they deserve. A peace the ones left back here to continue mourning their losses won't find any time soon. A peace that the criminal neither welcomed or rebuked because their mind is not a mind of compassion and comprehension in most cases.
     
    Are we killing people in the criminal justice system because there is a slim chance that the life with out parole , or multiple life sentences won't keep them locked away from society until the the creator himself terminates their existence?  Or are we killing people behind some misguided attempt to script Karma or engage in the eye for and eye philosophy? Or to some how showcase we've inflicted the  ultimate punishment? Punishment? How is freeing someone from everyday suffering punishing them? May be they go to hell faster. I don't know.
     
    In closing this post, I'd like to speak to those that argue the death penalty is a deterrent of sorts. Maybe, to the sound of mind  it is. Not to the criminally insane.
     
    Consider this:
    There is no odd correlation to be had regarding the fact that as we say goodbye to John Allen Muhammad we are saying hello to Anthony Sowell

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