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Oct. 18th, 2006 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshine_queenThere was a killing Gainesville back in 1990.
A killing is too weak a word, really... it was a massacre. A man named Danny Rolling- a troubled man, abused during his childhood, made to feel worthless- killed five college students. Brutally. The atrocities, which he seemed proud of, as he was when he raped and murdered a 24-year-old before killing her 8-year-old nephew and her father, were put on display for when the police came. He arranged the bodies- and their dismembered parts. And around them, he arranged mirrors to reflect the carnage.
Right now, Danny Rolling is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week. He's trying for an appeal. An appeal, if I remember correctly, because he's afraid that the lethal injection will hurt.
I don't think I made that up. I'm pretty sure I read that last week.
I've been reading about it in our school paper. I didn't know the names of the victims before, and now I do.
Christina Powell, 17. Sonja Larson, 18. Christa Hoyt, 18. Tracy Paules, 23. Manny Taboada, 23.
The first two- roommates- he stalked from a Walmart. Not even a Walmart, the Walmart I go to all the time. The Walmart on Archer. He saw them buying things for their new apartment. It was the first week of fall classes. He waited until three in the morning and then broke in.
I don't really know why I'm sharing this. I guess it's because I am just... I am so angry. For what happened to those kids. For what happened to their family. For what happened to Gainesville itself after this happened- the fear that gripped the town. Students slept in groups, bought guns, or left altogether.
And this guy has the nerve to want to overthrow his sentence.
For TV shows, you all know I'm all about violence. I'm not in real life, I swear. And normally, I am not a fan of the death penalty. I really do think that we, as human beings, shouldn't take the life of others because... well. We're not as cool as God.
But this guy? I guess I understand how the death penalty came to be, from years of retribution. This man doesn't deserve the easy death of lethal injection. He decapitated a girl. He mutilated people. He deserves to die. Not even that so much, but deserves to suffer. He brought it on himself, not like those kids, who suffered for no reason.
And I am extremely livid.
A killing is too weak a word, really... it was a massacre. A man named Danny Rolling- a troubled man, abused during his childhood, made to feel worthless- killed five college students. Brutally. The atrocities, which he seemed proud of, as he was when he raped and murdered a 24-year-old before killing her 8-year-old nephew and her father, were put on display for when the police came. He arranged the bodies- and their dismembered parts. And around them, he arranged mirrors to reflect the carnage.
Right now, Danny Rolling is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week. He's trying for an appeal. An appeal, if I remember correctly, because he's afraid that the lethal injection will hurt.
I don't think I made that up. I'm pretty sure I read that last week.
I've been reading about it in our school paper. I didn't know the names of the victims before, and now I do.
Christina Powell, 17. Sonja Larson, 18. Christa Hoyt, 18. Tracy Paules, 23. Manny Taboada, 23.
The first two- roommates- he stalked from a Walmart. Not even a Walmart, the Walmart I go to all the time. The Walmart on Archer. He saw them buying things for their new apartment. It was the first week of fall classes. He waited until three in the morning and then broke in.
I don't really know why I'm sharing this. I guess it's because I am just... I am so angry. For what happened to those kids. For what happened to their family. For what happened to Gainesville itself after this happened- the fear that gripped the town. Students slept in groups, bought guns, or left altogether.
And this guy has the nerve to want to overthrow his sentence.
For TV shows, you all know I'm all about violence. I'm not in real life, I swear. And normally, I am not a fan of the death penalty. I really do think that we, as human beings, shouldn't take the life of others because... well. We're not as cool as God.
But this guy? I guess I understand how the death penalty came to be, from years of retribution. This man doesn't deserve the easy death of lethal injection. He decapitated a girl. He mutilated people. He deserves to die. Not even that so much, but deserves to suffer. He brought it on himself, not like those kids, who suffered for no reason.
And I am extremely livid.
