"They're doing a good thing..." ?
Danny Harold Rolling did some very terrible things in his time in this earth...
Horrible, gruesome, unloving things which I don't even want to think about...
Danny Harold Rolling was executed yesterday for doing those things.
I don't want to think about that either...
BUT I CAN'T STOP.
Danny Harold Rolling - killed for killing...
Some say it was good thing.
Killing is a good thing?
posted by Art @ 2:59 AM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
Even now in Gainesville there exists a spectre of Rollings. The students who are enrolled now were infants and toddlers when this horrifying stuff took place, but everybody knows where he did it, how he did it, and the fact that he showed no remorse.
This happened before I enrolled, but I overlapped enrollment with students who were there when it all happened. You would still see the occasional student carrying a baseball bat, or otherwise incredibly liberal students with guns in their apartments. People were scared for years, scarred for life from the experience of not knowing if they would be next victim. This was heightened when they found Manny Taboada. He was a big guy, had cuts on his knuckles consistent with fighting back. He tried to stop Rollings and couldn't. No one felt safe.
There is a retaining wall on 34th St where students regularly paint messages. The center panel has all the names of the victims and a promise to remember what happened. Even today, in my 30s, when I look at that wall it gives me chills. Reading this post and hearing his name again did the same thing.
While I still oppose the death penalty, I can't say that I am sorry that he is gone.
LP, sorry. I didn't mean to bring back such bad memories for you or for anyone else.
But whenever I read these kinds of things, I am apalled by the attitude that some have.
I'm not necesarily sorry that the guy is gone either but I am sorry that some people feel the need to celebrate this sad event...
You are right about the fact that some people seem to celebrate this as if it somehow heals all the wounds that people felt. Funny thing is this: I hadn't thought about the murders for years until this morning. My first comment was more of an immediate emotional response, I certainly hope you didn't take that to mean I somehow faulted you for that.
Like you, I am a little appalled at the media and some of the comments I read there. Did we really accomplish anything by killing him? I've been out to the prison where he was held and I can tell you it is no social club. He probably got off easier in the end by not having to spend another 20 or 30 years in that hell hole.
Sorry if the comment came off as a little emotional...just thinking about it sparked some stuff I haven't thought about in a long time.
You know, this type of thing would never have happened at the University of Tennesse..only the University of Florida. Only joking. The sad thing is this kind of thing can happen anywhere. The truly sad thing is that it happens too frequently. It's great that the university has chosen to memorialize the victims. I hope that it serves as a reminder.
I, too, find it sad that people are celebrating Rollings' death. It's disgraceful that it is some of those same people who show outrage at aborting babies, but somehow murdering a full grown human is acceptable, even something to rejoice at. I wonder, what would Jesus think of all this?
And capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime? Yeah, Right!
well, it's certainly deterred me!
actually, i think the threat of sodomy is more of a deterrent to violent crime.
LP, no problem, man. I was afraid I offended YOU. I guess this kind of thing just brings out knee-jerk reactions which is what my original post was...
Stacie, please, no joking about executions! Not cool. But yeah, it can happen anywhere.
And, as much as I deplore capital punishment, I refuse to equate execution with murder for the very same reason I refuse to equate abortion with murder. Otherwise, yeah, exactly.
Jasdye, Well I guess the people that it would deter probably would NOT be the people going around severing folks heads...
As to the second part of your comment... NO you didn't! LOL
Honestly, though, that fear has kept me felony free for 30+ years):
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