Reply #38: Touchy one...

[vetwife]

Cheri was like my daughter. She called me Mom. She was murdered and all of you know that. It has been a horrible 8 weeks. I can't even describe what has happenend to my emotions. I have pondered those two questions most of my life. When it happens .....God Forbid it happens to any of you. You will draw your conclusions, not so much for revenge. As a Person of Faith ..Revenge is not supposed to be up to me but forgiveness...the Death Penalty conclusion comes from Killing again...Because this person has already killed 2 people and it seems to be getting easier and not even an arrest has been made.

The person who did this destroyed more than one family and took more than one life. Our diabetic daughter is now having to see a therapist. The whole family is shook. The killer is still out there and it was a brutal brutal murder. My son's dreams have vanished and I feel he is slowly dying. If the law was fair and they locked these folks up for life without parole, then maybe I would not have changed my mind. Some in my family still did not change their's. I still want him to face the Law of the Land and pay for his crime. This was a girl of 27 who maybe had the mind of a 16 year old and had problems and the heart of an angel. Someone who did that to her would kill a kid in my opinion. She was like my child. It was me she called Mom, she was not that close to her family.

On the other hand, if it had been my Mother who killed your child.?
I guess I would just die. I hate torture of any kind and I couldn't stand the thought of my own parent or child doing something like that. I would probably get suicidal.

I hope and pray you will never ever have to try and take a stand on that issue. My niece was killed in a car wreck by a drunk driver in 2000. He got off. He killed another girl in Tennessee last year. Another wreck and he was drunk. He is now finally facing vehicular homicide. Both victims were in another car minding their own business. That still did not affect me as bad as mutiple gunshot wounds to the head to a person who would not even harm a bug. She would pick it up and put it outside.