DAYTONA BEACH—Linda Hummer took her grandson into her home and tried to get him help for his drug problem, but he ended up moving out.  This weekend, he came back, looking for money to buy crack. Police say Christopher James Culp strangled his 60-year-old grandmother and slashed her throat, then stole her purse and continued his search for more drugs.  He said he went there with the intention of killing her, according to the police report….Culp, 20, is accused of using a kitchen knife to slice the throat of his grandmother…..a white extension cord—plucked from a vibrant Christmas display outside—was found wrapped around Hummer’s neck….Culp told police he’d borrowed $40 and a car from his aunt Lea Lauer on Friday night. He bought and smoked crack cocaine before going to his grandmother’s house around 9 p.m.

He started helping his grandmother with her Christmas light display, which included a large inflatable snowman outside. He told detectives he strangled her for five minutes with the faulty extension cord, then used a knife from the kitchen to slash her throat, police said.

Culp tossed the knife in the kitchen sink and made a phone call to get more crack cocaine. He then took her purse and wallet and drove around the county for the rest of the night, police said. (my emphasis)

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A certain troll who hangs around these pages suggested yesterday that yours truly and some commenters were engaging in “internet bravado” in a post about the case of a murderer whose lethal injection was “botched.” Well, here’s a little more:  I’d personally pull the switch that fires up Ol’ Sparky, drop the bag o’ cyanide into the sulfuric acid, or pull the lever that drops this little piece of shit in Daytona through the trap door.  Not because I’m a sadist, but because I’d have the satisfaction of ridding society of another murderous thug.  As I said in that post, if death sentences were carried out swiftly, it would have a deterrent effect on criminals, but more importantly, the ones that got convicted wouldn’t be around to kill or harm anyone else. 

You see, my trollish friend, we normal people are sick of being preyed on by scumsucking parasites, and we’re sick of liberal courts and douchebag attorneys who continually find new and creative ways to job the system so that their “clients” can go out and commit mayhem again.  And we’re sick of lefties who think they’re intellectuals sitting around pontificating about root causes, and how we have to treat the little dears with kid gloves.  What do you care?  It’s not your wife, or mother, or boss who was brutally murdered.  Speaking of how we treat them, I don’t believe for a minute that your side gives a rat’s ass whether “Mr. Garcia” suffered a little discomfort while he was being executed.  That’s just another cheap excuse to slow down capital punishment.  Next week it’ll be something else.

Utilitarian arguments aside, society has to have a moral compact with its law-abiding citizens, and the citizens have to have faith that that compact will be honored.  One of the agreements that should be in place is that if someone takes the life of a human being, he forfeits his own life.  It’s simple.  It’s basic.  And it’s the right thing to do.  If you don’t like it, go sit in a coffeehouse and talk about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.  And hope that your waiter isn’t Jack Henry Abbott.