Hi Everyone,

I have to say I'm just getting back to visit after a while away and this topic left me sort of dazed. I don't think the point of executing this guy is to bring closure to anyone. It might be presented by some people as a way to find closure but I think that's really just bullshit. I've always found that closure is a tough thing to come by in life and in a case like this you may have to work a lifetime at it and still come up empty. Quite honestly it's just a matter of taking out the garbage. This man lost his permit to continue to operate as a human being the moment his mind committed to the idea of going through with this savage act. So what he has become is less than nothing, human waste...a by-product...call it what you'd like but what we do with this stuff is find a way to get rid of it. Flush it, burn it, throw it away, dump it, bury it, shoot it into space. In this case we did what we needed to do. We took out the trash. What else would you suggest we do with it? Should we lock him up for life and pay for his existence behind bars, hospitalize him, study him, should we use him to test new drugs and chemicals on, make him a human guinea pig?

How can you shed a tear for this thing? Sure he had a father, what went wrong there? Isn't that a more relevant question than what his father thought he might do with his "little hands"? Jeffery Dahmer had a father too, maybe he taught him wonderful table manners. Let's face it, it's no surprise we punish murder with murder, we are a savage race and we always have been. Our history as a species is not filled with leaf eaters and love. For us it's always been meat and blood. We need to accept the fact that all we are is a beast with a better intellect. There are more monsters like this being born all the time and just think of the cost to us to discover them. I don't think we suddenly went wrong as a species or a society. Look back over the years and our history is littered with victims that have had to pay with blood. We repeat our mistakes and we get better at making them bigger along the way. I'm a compassionate soul, filled with love, and a deep respect and awe of our human existence but I'm not a fool. I know that at times in this life it is necessary to have a hard heart and you can not look upon a man like this with tears in your eyes. If we all did that where do you think that would leave us?

As for the death penalty being a deterrent, I don't believe that it is. It is a way to take out the trash though. It may even seem like letting them off too easy. Letting them live out their lives thinking about what they did, maybe that to some seems a harder way to go. Maybe for those of you that want to cry for little Timmy you can think of his execution as a mercy kill.

Doc Wahoo