The unforGiver

We have already established, have we not, that Mrs. Hillbilly Mom has a cold, cold heart? And that in fact, it is quite possible that her heart is AWOL altogether. So the following revelation should come as no surprise. Should not elicit a fit of apoplexy, or a wave of outrage. Mrs. Hillbilly Mom cannot change her spots.

Yesterday on the way home, The Pony and I saw that our local prison was again set up for an execution. We seem to eliminate one convicted ne’er-do-well per month. No, the prison does not have a lighted sign on wheels out front advertising the event. They rope off a section of the grounds so reporters can broadcast with the facility showing over their shoulder. They set up a checkpoint (yesterday with a little white tent due to high heat on hot blacktop, I suppose) at the edge of the parking lot. That’s because these events are invite-only, and credentials must be checked. On the lower road, the road that the guards use to patrol the outer edge of the razor-wire-topped chain link fence, a state highway patrol car sits, complete with two armed officers, to keep vehicles from entering from the county road.

I told The Pony, “I know this is terribly inappropriate, but every time I see those guys sitting there, I want to pump my fist as I go by, and say, ‘YES!’”

Let the record show that the most recent recipient of justice had lived on death row for 25 years. He confessed to being one of two men who kidnapped a 15-year-old girl from the end of her driveway one morning as she waited for the school bus. Her mother turned away from the door to help another child get ready, and when she looked back, only the girl’s books and flute case were sitting on the driveway. This despicable human being and his buddy raped and sodomized her, and stabbed her numerous times with a serrated knife while she begged for her life, then left her in the trunk of a car for three days, until a canary sang to the police for a $10,000 reward.

Sometimes, justice is overdue.

When Mrs. Hillbilly Mom reports for jury duty next week, the attorneys might want to ask her opinion of the death penalty before making their selections.