In this segment, I'm going to go beyond the 3 strikes law and address the greatest sentence available in our judicial system, the death penalty. And I'm going to do it by posting my views on the recent case involving the killer of Polly Klaas.
What a piece of trash this guy is. This guy is a perfect candidate for the electric chair. Y'know, a good friend of mine and I were joking just yesterday that criminals like this should have to prove that they would be of some benefit to society if given a life sentence rather than a death sentence. I kinda like that. If I'm paying to keep this worthless piece of garbage breathing, fed, and supplied with Playboy for the next 50 years, he'd better be able to give something back. Simply keeping him alive is not good enough; I want a return on my investment. And if he can't deliver to a predetermined set of criteria, nuke him.
Actually, in the case of this dirtbag, I say we literally nuke him anyway: stuff his greasy butt in a microwave and melt him down...
OH! OH! I can hear you from here: "Todd! That's so negative! That's so AWFUL! What good does it do to exact revenge?" We're not talking revenge, we're talking prevention. We're talking about ensuring that this piece of trash doesn't escape someday or get parolled. And keep in mind that we're talking about someone who walked into that sanctum sanctorum, the home, stole a little girl -- a daughter, granddaughter, sister, friend, a bright and shiny sparkle of life full of potential and possibility -- right in front of her friends, hauled her off into the boonies, brutalized her and killed her. No remorse, no hesitation, plenty of time to rethink and reconsider. Plenty of time to simply not kill her. Plenty of time to let her go, pack a bag, and make a run for the border. Plenty of time to run through all the emotions that a normal human being, worthy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, would run through. Plenty of time to return to some degree of the sanity shared by said normal human beings and change the course of action. Plenty of time to NOT ACT LIKE A DERANGED AND DANGEROUS ANIMAL.
He chose his course of action, planned it out in his head, stuck with it to the very gruesome end, and ripped the life from that sweet little girl.
If the O.J. verdict was supposed to send a message, then so was this. A message that society will not tolerate the violation of the sanctity of the home and the kidnapping and murder of it's children. It's too bad that the message we sent was that an animal like this can survive such an act. The sentence fell short of the mark.
Kill him. Society needs his death.