Fast track to the electric chair

So I'm driving to Home Depot with my dad yesterday and he proceeds to tell me a story he read in the paper.

A mother and a boyfriend have two daughters. The parents are Meth addicts. Move around a lot. the daughters are 10 and 3.

Brilliant parents sell some bad meth to some other folks, who are pissed about it (obviously). They track down the parents in a casino but security escorts the folks.

The folks then decide to go to the hotel where the parents are staying and the children currently are.

The main guy knocks on the door, the 10 year old opens but won't let them in and shuts the door. A few minutes later, the guy has his sister go up to the door. The 10 year old answers and the guy basically surprises her and 3 people (the guy, his sis and his girlfriend) proceed to stab the 3 year old to death and the 10 year old dozens of times, severing her spinal cord in the process.

I was quiet for a bit and told Dad I wish he hadn't told me. He ask why and I told him it ruins my mood for the day because it makes me want to start a vigilante death squad and wipe these people from the face of the earth. Go Boondock Saints on them (a must see movie).

I'm moving away from being a supporter of the death penalty, mainly for the reason that I don't like giving the state that kind of power. And there are some legit concerns about its application.

That said, fast track these mother*uckers to the chair. Hell, hang them. Give them their fair trial, fast track their appeals. Their appeals immediately go to the front of the line and are handled.

This is how it should be for crimes against children, in my opinion. Some of the legal eagles who read here can perhaps tell me any other due process concerns that would need to be statisfied. But if they get the death penalty, it shouldn't take 15 years to shoot a few thousand volts of electricity through their worthless bodies.

But those *uckers need to die and meet their maker. Give them their due process and send them to hell.

And as a perfect post-script, a judge is returning custody of the paralyzed 10 year old to the mother because she married the father and has been sober for about 5 months or so. Brilliant. Like the stress of taking care of a handicapped child couldn't possibly push her back to abusing drugs.

Whatever happens to this child from here on out as a result of her mother should be used as punishment for the judge.

Wonder if I lost Jef on this one...