I love it when people wax all eloquent with these mystic visions of justice and humanity and equali...
Not really.
DNA evidence has connected him to at least two of the seven rapes. I'm not sure which ones. Maybe it was the eleven year old he raped. Maybe it was the 79 year old woman.
"Other calls made from the pay phone around the same time gave officials a list of numbers Rapalo likely called. One particularly long conversation led officials to monitor calls to that number, which continued to receive calls from local pay phones at night and in the early mornings. Officials believed it was Rapalo was calling, Arrojo said.
On Friday the State Attorney's office obtained an emergency wiretap of the number, which was a cell phone. Rapalo had told at least one inmate that his plan after escaping was to return to his native Honduras, but to first kill the prosecutor on his case, according to the State Attorney's office. Those threats were instrumental in allowing the wiretap."
So now, I suppose the next thing you will try is "It is better that 10 guilty men go free than have one innocent man convicted"...
That's a BS canard, and you know it. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent people get convicted every single year, mostly by zealous prosecutors who have given up their ethics, but are also the ones who usually come back with "It is better that 10 guilty men..."
The law, as currently practiced, is mutually exclusive with common sense.
And justice delayed is justice denied, worse, it mocks and makes a sham of true justice.