BTK Serial Killer Gets 10 Life Sentences
殘殺十條生命,自稱BTK的連環殺手,被判十次終身監禁,至少175年,並分期執行。
十條已死的生命,可以用十次終身監禁去補償嗎?事情已經發生,人也已經被殺了,想用「以牙還牙」的懲罰,他又不可能死十次,十次終身監禁可以說是最好的懲罰。
令我印象深刻的,是其中一位受害人家屬的說話:
“As far as I’m concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. I want him to suffer as much as he made his victims suffer,” said Beverly Plapp, sister of victim Nancy Fox. “This man needs to be thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot. He should never, ever see the light of day … On the day he dies, Nancy and all of his victims will be waiting with God and watching him as he burns in hell.”
人的仇恨心,竟能深如此,「[受害者]……在天堂看著他在地獄裡受苦。」。上帝聽到,會不會也搖頭嘆息,向那位家屬說一聲:「人,要有寬恕之心。」?