By David Lohr
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Earlier today I had an opportunity to look over some of the documents attorney Baya Harrison had filed on Rolling's behalf. Within these documents, Harrison challenged the chemicals used in the execution process, saying they can cause "severe pain". Now allow me step up on the soapbox for a minute here. Is this really a bad thing? Did none of Rolling's victims suffer severe pain? That being said, why should he have been granted freedom from suffering his own pain? Regardless of whether or not lethal injection is painful, it could by no means compare to the pain Rolling inflicted on his victims.
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| Sonja Larson, victim |
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Harrison said Rolling told him, "I don't want to die, but it looks like I'm going to die." For someone who has always played it calm and cool, that sounds like a coward's statement. I'm sure if you could ask them Christa Hoyt, Sonja Larson, Christa Powell, Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada didn't want to die either.
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| Christa Powell, victim |
In the end, his protests didn't matter.
"He is the poster child, if you will, of why there should be a death penalty — atrocious crimes committed," Bush said during a statement to the press on Wednesday. It's more than appropriate for him to receive the sentence he received, and my only frustration is it takes so long for the sentence to be complete."
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