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When sweet little eight year old Tori Stafford was
sexually tortured and then murdered by being put
in a
plastic bag and having her head pulverized with
a hammer I
blogged that if the Canadian Government
decided to
reinstate the death penalty for her two
killers I
wouldn't protest it -
even though
I would vote against bringing it back on a
permanent
basis.
Today I was
at the museum talking to another volunteer.
We were discussing
the recent murder of Tim Bosma,the young husband and new father from Hamilton, Ontario.
Bosma went
out with two men to test drive a vehicle he
was selling
and never came home.
His burned
body was found a week later.
A young,
wealthy man named Millard - who sported a
ridiculous
pink Mohawk haircut in the photos that were
published,
was charged with first degree murder this
morning.
But the police
are looking for at least two other men.
My
co-worker thinks Millard has been set up.
What he
says makes sense.
I mean how
likely would it be for even the most stupid of
murderers
to go to his own mother's house and leave the
victim's truck
in her driveway?
And then
there is the matter of the car and car owner they
checked out
the previous day. A big man who wouldn't
have
been easy
to overpower.
My friend
thinks that who the victim was didn't matter
to the
killers.
Tim Bosma
with his tiny baby, heart breakingly eloquent
wife and frantic
family was just unlucky.
He thinks
the killers wanted to frame Millard and send
a message
to others who do whatever nasty business it is
that
Millard was doing.
He also
thinks they might be back in Russia by now.
I don't
know how close he is to the truth and it will be a
long time
before we find out.
But I will
tell you that I am now open to discussions on
re-instating
the death penalty.
And that is
something I never thought I would write.
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