A sort of downmarket Leopold & Loeb have been accused of graphically murdering a school teacher in Vermont.
Nasty business, plotted seemingly at random and caught almost immediately...just like Leopold and Loeb minus the pointless exactitude of a pair of "War of Warcraft" champions.
My point is, just listen for the shrill cries for the Death Penalty on this one, this one is so very nasty it is bound to reverb in the State Legislatures of New England.
Mind you, as a theoretical proposition I'm not opposed to Capital Punishment (there are just some miscreants out there who need to be turned to dust soonest, forget about deterring crime they just need to leave this Earth)...Its just that I don't trust the Massachusetts State Legislature to write a fair just equitable law that will punish the guilty, any more than I trust the legislatures of Vermont, Maine Connecticut or ghod help us New Hampshire and Rhode Island to do likewise.
If this debate rekindles, I suppose then it is pointless then to plead for calm deliberation...No not with all sorts of angry "believing minds" controlling the discourse.
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