The horrid writing in the article leaves one wondering which family he tried to feed the heart to?
Appears it was his own family getting the meal.
His own. Was paroled early on a 20 year prison sentence. When to live with his uncle, the uncle’s wife and daughter. Two days after murdering the white woman and cutting out her heart, he cooked the heart with potatoes and served it to his relatives. When they balked, he attacked them; murdering the uncle and niece and partially blinding the aunt.
The prosecutor agreed to drop the death penalty as a sentencing option in order to spare the families of the victims the horror of having all the grizzly details repeated in court.
I am against the death penalty, but not for the reasons usually given. As a retired Marine, I have no problem with killing people. I just think modern execution is too easy a departure. Even with confinement, the criminal lives on for years and years of relative comfort waiting for the sentence to be finally carried out. To satisfy me, if you harmed one of my relatives, you would have to be able to be executed over and over again until my anger was satiated. Obviously, this is not possible. That being the case, I would prefer that the murderer live on in absolute misery, deprived of everything except life itself until such time that they expired naturally or had a good sense to kill themselves.
One of the family members expressed the hope that the murderer would “rot from the inside.” That’s a good start. Maybe infect him with some incurable but slow killing disease. Do not treat the disease. Instead, make him live through the agony of dying bit by bit over a long period of time and knowing that it was all simply justice being administered on him.
Of course, this is not possible either, due to the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments in the amendments to the constitution.
Probably just as well.