Kill the bastard already.

So, a judge, cozy and insulated in his Manhattan courtroom has upheld the stay of execution for confessed serial killer Michael Ross. As someone who was 13 when Ross was caught within ten miles of my parents' house, I can only hope that the infinitely wise judge's family is safer wherever the hell they are than we were back then. There's a legitimate claim to be made that capital punishment does not deter crime. Of course it doesn't when some frigging lawyers and judges care more about the mental state of a confessed multiple murderer who has stated that he wants to waive his appeals and finally die than they do about final justice and closure for the victims' families. For anything to be an effective deterrent, you have to exercise it.

One appeal and you're dead is how it should be. (And no I really don't care that we might have innocent people on death row. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.)

It's too bad the cop that caught this monster twenty years ago didn't have his sidearm fire accidently during a scuffle.