This headline was supposed to horrify me:
Executed murderer’s shocking final words before he was gassed to death as he gasped & thrashed in 19-minute ordeal
…but it had the opposite effect. Why?
In 1994, he and three teenage friends killed and later mutilated Vickie DeBlieux, 37, as she hitchhiked through the state on the way to her mother’s home in Louisiana. His victim was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to her mother’s home in West Monroe, when Grayson and his three pals offered her a ride.
Prosecutors said at the time the four teens took her into the woods where they attacked her and beat her to death. They later revisited the scene to cut her body 180 times, cutting off her fingers and removing a portion of her lung. Her beaten body was found at the bottom of a bluff near Odenville, Alabama on February 26.
A medical examiner testified that Vickie’s face was so fractured she was identified by an earlier X-ray of her spine.
I have only two regrets about this: it took 30 years before this bastard was finally executed; and his three psycho buddies inexplicably had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment in 2005. This should have been a four-of-a-kind grand slam.
Feel free to explain to me why justice should have been tempered by mercy. It’s not going to work.
I think that in cases like this, if the proof is beyond reasonable doubt – the criminal scumbag should be handcuffed and left in a room. The family and friends of the victim can then have 2 hours to do as they wish with the criminal scumbag.
Televise the show on streaming services (instead of fixed predetermined boxing matches) and use the money to pay off the national debt and also deport illegal aliens.