Then again, maybe in the right cases, the death penalty should be allowed

[Don Corleone]

My argument against the death penalty really comes down to a question of morality and spirituality. Unlike a war or self defense in one's home, execution by its very nature is an unnecessary killing. The state already has the murderer (or rapist) in custody, so it's not necessary to kill them to immobilize them or prevent them from doing further harm. By executing them, you're killing somebody when you don't need to.

And then I watched an ABC News special report last night about this tragic story of poor Denise Lee. This poor woman was abducted from her own house in a home invasion, in front of her 10 month old and 2 year old sons. The suspected murderer, Michael King, drove her first to his own house, then to his cousin's house, where he asked for gasoline, a shovel and a flashlight. The victim, Denise Lee, bound hand and foot, escaped from King's Camaro and screamed "call the police, call the police". The cousin, Harold Muxlow, asked King, who told him not to worry about it. Muxlow didn't, and didn't call police. He did tell his daughter about the incident, and she called police. Muxlow later yelled at her for "making him look bad and embarrassing him".

The whole story is horrible on many levels. The victim was brutally raped, shot repeatedly and then buried in a shallow grave by the side of the road. The worst part is, a woman phoned 911 from a cell-phone when she was following King's Camaro and said she could see what appeared to be a woman or a child struggling in the backseat. But because the woman described the Camaro as blue, not green (the car is blue-green), did not forward the information along. Two hours later, Lee was raped again, dead and buried.

I have a hard time with this story. Forget King himself, I want to beat the cousin to death. I don't know why, when they brought King in for questioning... a ticking timebomb scenario if ever there was one, somebody didn't take some pruning shears to him and start taking his fingers off at each knuckle until he coughed up where the body was.

As it was, it took 2 days of intensive searching to find the grave and the victim.

I'm sorry, I know most of the Orgahs are thoroughly modern and disaffected by such stories, and it's cool to be blase', but I really truly want blood. And a lot of pain. Repeatedly. I know this isn't Christian, and in fact, it's pretty dangerous, spiritually speaking, but I don't really care. I think I've had it with the child molesters/rapists/murderers of the world, running around torturing, raping and killing innocent women and children. Maybe it's time somebody starts making them a little nervous and maybe think twice before they do these things. They clearly think they'll get a free ride, even if they get caught. And they're right.

Maybe this country needs its own Sombra Negra.