Kentucky Executes First Inmate in 9 Years

Kentucky has executed a confessed child killer who resisted all appeals. In the state's first execution in nine years, 37 year old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. I am a firm believer in the death penalty. Those who are against it because they think it is inhumane are not taking into consideration what happened to the victim. What kind of inhumane treatment did they receive? God says if a man shall take the life of a man, he shall give up his life.

Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in their northern Kentucky home in a 2002 attack that wounded their mother and another child. He asked to be put to death and fought for the right to fire his attorneys to clear the way. I feel he did the right thing. I also believe if the death penalty was brought back in all 50 states and they were given no more than one appeal and were put to death within the year, there would be a great many less murders. As it is now, most killers know they won't die but will live out their lives in comfort in prisons with color television and dope being smuggled in to them, along with plenty of cigarettes that the taxpayers are probably paying for. Did you know the average person on death row in California has been there 18 years?