[ApplegateRanch]

Shame on Rick Malwitz?

Nooooo; shame on Dan Berger, whom Mr. Malwitz exposed.

If Williams had been sentenced to death, his story would have been retold often, through a seemingly endless series of appeals in state and federal courts. The convoluted legal process would have cost countless tax dollars.

His death was lamented on the online edition of The Nation — a publication of the hard left.

Berger made only a passing reference to the murder of Philip Lamonaco.

Sounds like this guy is not at all sympathetic to the criminal, though he is anti death penalty. He seems glad the scumbag died behind bars, forgotten & unlamented, exactly as sentenced.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I'm not certain if it was intended, but he certainly made a valid point. That *guaranteed* life can be (not necessarily is) a worse punishment. I imagine that for some, it is a daily living hell. He seemed to imply that there was some justice in the obscurity of the man's life in prison and his death, also. Which is also a valid point.

If his life was indeed hell, then perhaps the sentence was inadvertently appropriate. Am I in favor of life rather than the death penalty. Not at all. We have no way of knowing in advance which is going to be worse for the murderer. Thus, the morally right punishment for a heinous murder is execution.