"BELLEVILLE -- A St. Clair County jury allowed Jason Smith, the Dupo man who killed four people in a shotgun rampage, to escape the needle of a lethal injection late Friday night." [link]
"CLAYTON -- A judge sentenced Kevin Johnson this morning to die by lethal injection for the murder of a Kirkwood police officer on July 5, 2005." [link]
This isn't necessarily some sort of anti-death penalty plea, nor am I arguing that one of these crimes was "more heinous" than the other. Both of these guys are murderers.
But the difference in venues, roughly a 41 minutes' drive from each other, was a difference of life and death. Something is seriously wrong.
2/1/08
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