To the editor:

I would like to offer an opinion on the death penalty, perhaps from a different perspective. Although I am a very nonviolent and compassionate person, I’m the son of a prison warden who exposed me early in life to the darker side of humanity.

My dad told me when I was young that there are people in this world who will take your life for whatever is in your wallet, and then there are worse who will do the same just for pleasure. I therefore must maintain the death penalty, regardless of the expense, for those who commit multiple murders, serial killers and those who are serving life and murder again in prison. I ask you, what is the deterrent for a person serving life without parole who should kill a fellow inmate, guard or even a prison doctor? What are you going to do, give him another life sentence?

When I think of those deserving the death sentence, the Carr brothers in Wichita immediately come to mind. Anyone who doesn’t know the story please Google and enlighten yourselves. These two subjected five young people to a long night of rape, humiliation and finally bullets to the head, leaving them in a field to die in the snow. One young lady survived the ordeal, scarred for life physically and mentally.

I hear the term morally opposed, well I am morally opposed to caring for monsters such as these the rest of their lives!

Craig Tucker,
Lawrence