I think you took my response too seriously. Who would want to torture that wife yet again with the sound of gunshots? For HER sake, it would be the wrong thing to do.
There was a Texas man who poisoned his child’s Halloween candy to collect on the insurance (one reason parents are all hypersensitive now about what children bring home from ‘Trick or Treat’ and many won’t let their kids ‘Trick or Treat’ at all).
The judge sentenced him to die on October 31st. The ACLU stepped in and claimed this was “cruel and unusual punishment” so the date was pushed back. I would have been happy to see the guy meet his end on Halloween and also have him ingest cyanide by pixie stick to do it.
I know where you are coming from.
We used to let our kids ‘Trick or Treat’ as we walked them down the street, but we would take the candy away and replace it with a variety of the things we had bought.
They thought that was so unfair.
Look, the chances of something bad happening are quite small, but we refused to take chances with their safety.