AmyS:
People who work in prisons also get killed, not, just prisoners…
Scott, as well as everyone, deserves their life to repent. I won’t hold my breath on him though. He seems like a sociopath to me. They don’t typically, take repentence or remorse seriously. They don’t have the capablility to. But, that is up to God to judge. I pray for all of their souls. Scott was not the victim in this. Although, he needs prayers.
A friend of mine, who is Catholic, is a Federal Corrections Officer. He tells about Tommy Silverstein.
Tommy was convicted of murder and got a life sentence. While in prison, he killed a fellow inmate – and got ANOTHER life sentence (at that time, the Supreme Court had invalidated the death penalty, and states and the Federal Government were struggling to come up with a version that the Courts would allow.)
The state sent Tommy to the Federal Prison at Marion – just then being set up as a “Super-Max” for especially violent inmates. Tommy was in the lock-down wing, spending 23 hours a day in his cell – time he spent doing pushups, and so on. He was an unusually powerful man.
Regulations required that when out of his cell, he had to be shackled and accompanied by three Corrections Officers. One day, coming back from the shower, Tommy broke away from the Corrections Officers, ran the length of the cell block, skidded to a stop, and thrust his manacled hands through the cuff solt in the last cell. The inmate there unlocked his handcuffs with a home-made key and handed him a 15" knife.
As the Corrections Officers came running up, Tommy attacked one, cutting him literally to ribbons.
Another Corrections Officer was killed the same day, in a similar manner.
Tommy got ANOTHER life sentence.
Now, Tommy is currently in a special cell in the basement at the Federal Penetentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
How many of those who oppose the death penalty are willing to volunteer to be Tommy’s guard? How many will put THEIR lives at risk every day to feed, shower, and guard such a dangerous prisoner?
And if they won’t volunteer, what right have they got to demand OTHERS put their lives at risk guarding men like Tommy?