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Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, was quoted as saying, "These men are not monsters."
Monsters in the true sense of the word don't acually exist. The people on death row exist.
Every day these so called non-monsters can talk to their families, receive letters and if the prison library does not carry a book they want, the law requires the state to purchase it for them.
For the victims' families, they're left with memories of all those special times. The victims of crime have missed children's birth, weddings, anniversaries, football and basketball games and graduations. We must survive through the difficult times when just having them here to comfort you or hold your hand would make a difference — all the times when you wish you could go to them for advice. Those are all the things and more these monsters take away.
My father and best friend was George Yaros, a lieutenant on the Gary police department. In 1981, he was responding to a possible bank robbery at the Gary National Bank. One of those so-called non-monsters Rogers talks about came out of the bank shooting. With my father on the ground unconscious, this perpetrator decided to finish him off by shooting him point blank in the chest severing his aorta.
The worst of this scenario was the possiblity that had he not shot him in that manner (cold blood), my father might be here today.
My father was a strong man. Serving in World War II as a paratrooper for the 101st Airborne Division, he was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. My father was taken prisoner by the Germans and put in a POW camp, only to escape. He continued to give to the community after he came home by becoming a police officer.
My father and those officers like him put their lives on the line every day; these men and women are true heroes.
So you see, these men on death row are indeed worse than monsters. All the so-called special interest groups trying to abolish the death penalty because they think it does not deter crime should put their money where their mouths are. Try helping all those people, young and old, who are having a difficult time following the laws; those who say their childhood was dysfunctional and the environment in which they lived made them turn to crime.
Why doesn't Rogers take a few of them into her home and rehabilitate them and give taxpayers a break?
Between 1920 and 1949, 51 people were executed. This was back in the days when people could leave their doors unlocked, when parents raised their children to respect others and the laws.
Since 1950, only nine people have been executed in Indiana. Let's review: More executions, less crime; few executions, more crime. The real reason the death penalty does not deter crime is because we do not use it.
These people sit on death row for years getting appeal after appeal. Our family has been waiting 18 years for justice to be served. You talk about mistakes and rehabilitation for these non-monsters. Well, the "monster" who killed my father was given a second chance after he killed an elederly man in 1975. The so-called experts said he was rehabilitated. Instead, he chose to commit a crime again; this time he killed a cop, my dad, my best friend.
People are sick and tired of all the second chances and how the rights of the poor criminal have been violated. What about our rights to live in a safe society?
Maybe if the system was swift and just, people thinking of committing a crime would think twice. Then again, why should they? They have people like Rogers standing there. Rogers should do us all a favor and use her position as a representative of this state to represent the people.
The people want the death penalty.
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