[willyboyishere]

Nah, I don't think the Carr brothers will invoke any sympathy, even on PBS or NPR. The only "sympathy" will come
indirectly and only from the very staunchest of the anti- Death Penalty crowd, for whom NO
crime in horrible enough to justify the DP. The Carr Bros.
story is as brutal as these stories get, every bit as calculatedly evil as the Maryland sniper story, and it's somehow even worse, because more personal, involving hours of terror, rape, and eventual up-close murder, with every act of violence committed in full view of helpless others. The Lefty Press and Media will do their bit, as they usually do, by
OMISSION---this story only got a passing glance from them, at best, when it happened, and how they are handling it now,
with the judgements in, will be problematical, since they took no public position on it at the outset.

[IronJack]

Right. And this sin of omission is just the start. It's passive advocacy. Next comes the "story behind the story." Then the sympathy pieces start ... the miraculous reformation the Carrs have undergone, the sensitive poetry they write, the touching generosity they show the other prisoners and fuzzy woodland creatures ...

We had a Death Row Denizen who raped, bludgeoned, strangled, and stabbed a girl to death all so he could steal a $10 radio from her house. He sat on the Row for almost 20 years. When the time finally came to ash his hash, the media were full of stories about how changed a man he was. It was enough to make me puke. Before that, I'd always felt the death sentence should be carried out with due respect for its gravity. After this treacly campaign, I was ready to open a t-shirt stand outside the cell block.