Killing is killing

I write in regard to my disgust with how so many people would so easily give death to criminals. For instance, Karen Brassard, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, said in an interview with CNN that she would not lose sleep over the potential death of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

In my mind, that makes her no less psychopathic than Tsarnaev himself. Three people have already died; do we really want to raise that?

Or how about Bryan Beard, a friend of a victim of the Aurora (Colo.) theater killings, saying that he wanted to watch Holmes killed? Is it not psychopathic to want to watch the death of a person? Even if they have committed crimes, they are still very much people.

For another example, Bobby Stephens, a survivor of Nathan Dunlap’s 1993 serial killing in an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese, said, “It’s not fair” that Dunlap hasn’t been killed. Here is a person who was heralded as a brave survivor, and testified at Dunlap’s trial, blatantly displaying his desire for the death of another human being.

I ask you: Is killing a guilty man different than killing an innocent one?

Nathan Watt

Spokane