Well I don’t know that it’s you. Perhaps I did phrase it wrong and lead the reader to believe that there was more about the death penalty in this book than there was.
I suppose it’s more about personal revelation than anything. I’d been leaning toward the notion of America just getting rid of the death penalty completely. Life without parole is cheaper on the taxpayer and there were other things giving me doubts.
But after reading this story I truly see there are people who should, if at all fairly possible, be put to death. Marlin was one of these guys....just a lowlife with no regard for human life.
There was an especially poignant scene in this book. In fact, the book never dealt with Marlin’s execution as it happened after the book was written I believe. I discovered that Marlin had been executed by a Wikipedia search.
But Tom kept showing up to scheduled executions of that so-called retard guy, who is still alive today when he too should be dead. Tom told his sister, the author, that he didn’t necessarily want to watch his cousins’ killers die.
He just wanted a simple apology, an expression of regret. Something, some sign of humanity that these boys wish they hadn’t did what they did, that two beautiful young girls should be alive but instead died so horrifically.
Well, anyway...maybe you hadda be there.
Read the book. Cummins is a wonderful writer.
Okay..., thanks.
Death penalty isn’t good enough.
Bring back drawing and quartering or boiling in oil.