Execution brings out
strong feelings about death penalty
Posted: Oct 26, 2010
3:38 PM Updated: Nov 02, 2010 2:14 AM
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – A
group of people gathered in midtown Monday to keep their message against the
death penalty alive.
"Because I
oppose the death penalty," explained Nancy Mairs as she protested with
members of Coalition of Arizonans Against the Death Penalty on the corner of
Speedway and Campbell. Mairs said that her foster son Ron DuGay was
fatally shot in the head ten years ago. His killer has not been found,
and Mairs said that if they are, she does not want them to be executed.
"We would have
liked to have them caught so that they couldn't do it again," Mairs
said. "But we consider ourselves fortunate to have not been put
through the grueling trial so many homicide survivors go through."
"When
Muhammad was put to death, I thought justice was served," Cheryll
Shaw said at a family home. Her father, Jerry Taylor, was killed by D.C.
snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo on a Tucson golf course.
"The
first thing that went across my head when the execution started was just
reliving everything of how my dad was killed," she said.
Now, as the future of
Death Row inmate Jeffrey Landrigan sits in the hands of the court, two people
with different perspectives on capital punishment share their own personal
experiences to consider.
"I say Ron is
dead. Why would I want anybody else dead? It would not soothe us in
any way. It would just grieve us," Mairs said.
"But
then you think, 'this is another life being taken,' but then when you sit back
and realize that this was my father he took place in killing, I believe he got
what he deserved," Shaw said.
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COMMENT: In the State of Virginia, they
execute the guilty murderers within five to seven years from the first
sentence. In this way, it will not allow the victims’ families to endure years
of heartache and in this case, Cheryll Shaw had justice and closure. For a violent murderer
like Jeffrey Landrigan, the abolitionists here do not want to disclose to the
public that he was convicted of a murder and escaped from prison only to kill
again.
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