Ten months ago Mark Becker, 24, entered his old high school and fired six/seven shots at his former football coach. Becker also kicked, stomped, cursed at Ed Thomas according to the 22 football players in the gym at the time. Coach Thomas was an idol in his small Iowa town, he was the coach for 37 seasons. Not only did Coach Thomas's sons, grandchildren, wife hurt from this but the whole town had sympathy for the Thomas family. Becker suffers from paranoid schizophrenia but the courts convicted him of first-degree murder, denying his plea for insanity.
Coach Thomas's sons finally addressed Becker and had harsh statements to their father's murderer...
"Every day as you live in jail, I want you to reflect on what you stole from us."
"It;s too bad you made the choices you made, you'll never understand how much you hurt our family, nor do I think you care."
"Your worst punishment is still to come, when your time on Earth is over and you have to answer to God for the murder of my father."
Becker should be in jail, schizophrenia or not. He took a life on purpose and must pay. His sons have every right to feel that way towards him. This man came and killed their innocent father for no reason. If someone killed my father out of the blue I would want them to regret doing that, why should someone enjoy their life when they took another?
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i think that being sentenced to death would be to easy of a punishment. If i person has to suffer the rest of their lives without freedom they will be forced to think of what they did for the rest of their life. I would prefer they suffer that way rather than just die.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Antonisha...i think suffering is the best punishment. Because someone is sentenced to death, they are just as responsible for killing you on behalf of you killing another person. wouldnt you be more likely to regret alive then dead i suppose....
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