The overall death toll rose by 20% in one day

[sylvar]

Sonja Larson
Christina Powell
Christa Hoyt
Tracy Paules
Manuel Taboada
Danny Rolling

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Remember.


UPDATE: At tealfroglette's suggestion, I have changed the style of this entry so that the murderer's name is NOT in bold, and his victims' names are. I apologize for giving the impression that I thought he deserved more emphasis than the people he killed. (2006-10-27)

Comments

[wedash.livejournal.com]

Regardless of one's feeling on the death penalty, it is insulting to these 5 people and their families to post his name alongside theirs as though he is equal.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Each of them was deliberately killed, and each killing was morally wrong. Although his victims' families have no obligation to show sympathy to his family (as the community around the West Nickel Mines Amish School did, comforting the family of the man who murdered five young people there), I hope some of them will.

[knobody.livejournal.com]

it's not a matter of who was deliberately killed. it's a matter of choice. the victims did not have a choice. that monster broke into their homes and did unspeakable things to them, one of them a high school acquaintance of mine. he chose his actions, knowing the penalty. they did not. my friend was raped, mutilated, beheaded and posed against her will. he chose a course of action that he knew could lead to his death by execution or even by self defense. that's the difference between innocent victims and death row monsters. that is why their names should not be listed together.