If an individual seeks to enrich himself by destroying a life, and in this instance the lives of many, and in all too many instances the lives of young people who have otherwise promising futures ahead of them, in such instances it seems to me that life in prison is a low price to ask for those who perpetrate this crime against society. If it is the death penalty, so be it.
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