Having lost one child I can tell you that no amount of time would change feelings that intense for me. If my child died at the hands of another I would pray that person got the DP. Having said that, I am not positive I could vote for the DP in KC's case because I have no proof, at this point, how Caylee died even though I feel sure she died at the hands of her mother.
I'm sending you big hugs from one bereaved mother to another. :hug:
As someone whose child did die at the hands of another, I've pondered this a lot. The perpetrator of the crime against my child received, and served, a ten year sentence. Was that enough? No freaking way. However, long story short, at one point during his incarceration, I got word from another prisoner who was like the cousin of my cousin's wife or something. The message was "All you have to do is say the word...." For a variety of reasons, I didn't doubt the sincerity and validity of the offer, and didn't contemplate saying "the word" for longer than about thirty seconds. But for those thirty seconds...:waitasec:
I replied that I appreciated the thought and the offer, but that my wish was that he serve his entire sentence. I have mixed feelings about the death penalty in general, but just like with the killer of my son, I want Casey to have to sit in a concrete jungle, unable to get away from herself and her thoughts, for the rest of her life. I don't presume to know what happens after a person dies, but killing her just feels like giving her the easy way out. IMHO, of course. :twocents:
fftopic:[Oh, and I also have some serious feelings of resentment in regards to the free-education-in-prison thing. My student loan bills are astonishing! A few years ago, I took a class with a young woman who said her entire college education is paid for because she was a "ward of the state" when she turned eighteen. Was she a foster kid? Nope! She was a ward of the state because she was in juvy for beating the ever-living-snot out of another teenage girl for, admittedly, no real reason. Now, I've never confirmed the truth of her story, as far as juvy kids getting tuition, but the very idea just burned my bucket. Anyone here know if that is true?]