Seriously, what kind of sickos do something like this? I remember when I was in college, two of my friends were drunk, were looking for a Waffle House, and stole a car (joyriding was the official charge) to look for food.
It was then that I realized that a thought like 'stealing a car' would never have popped up in my mind, and that some people are just wired differently. The boundaries are different for them than for the rest of society.
It is when you read cases like this that it's hard to be aginast the death penalty. You can argue all you want about cruel and unusual punishment, but it's apparent that these rapists/killers can never be released back into society. Arbitrarily and sporadically yelling, 'hey let's rape somebody' and then killing the person is the equivalent of a California mountain lion attacking a human to test the flesh. (At least the animal is just acting out of instinct) But what do you do to the lion? You eliminate it from the equation.
Why pay to clothe and feed them until they die of natural causes?
Daily lesson in irony: In prison, 'death by natural causes' might mean being raped and then murdered by a fellow inmate.
Honestly, I am all FOR 'cruel and unusual punishment' in this case, and in these times. And fast-track them, too. And because she was beautiful?? What kind of perversion is that? It is NOT of the Lord.