Things that will get you the death penalty

1.  Shooting an officer of the law.

 

2.  Brutally killing someone with a pickaxe.

 

3.  Pooping in a trash can.

 

That's right, a child who is mentally slow and having trouble with potty-training used a trash can instead of the toilet.  So his step father killed him.

 

But that's not the outrageous part.

 

Know what's outrageous?  The rotten bastard didn't get the same penalty he dolled out to the child.  No, he gets to live.  Makes you wonder if he treats the dog the same way as the child...  or better?  How is it that when a dog craps on the carpet you rub his nose in it and throw him outside, but when a child--A HUMAN CHILD--uses a trash can you feel compelled to kill him?

This guy, in his infinite wisdom, decided that crapping in a trash can was, in his eyes, equivalent to Karla Faye Tucker putting a pick axe in someone's chest, except Tucker had a chance to defend herself in court.  The kid didn't.  So, I guess that means this guy decided that the kid's offense was far greater than hacking 2 people to death and denied that poor child the right of due process.  How dare he crap in a trash can.  That's a killin' offense.

 

Motivation to run?  I got your motivation right here, baby.  If a dog attacks a child the dog is put to death.  No questions, no defense.  We can't have that.  If a pathetic sub-human of a step father attacks a child, he's automatically given life in prison (possibly doomed to a lifetime of prison rapes, but I'm no advocate of torture).  And what about the mother?  According to the article she's in the other room while this goes down.  I can tell you this much, if my dog uses the carpet and my lovely wife is in the other room, she hears it.  She knows what's going on.  This "woman" was sitting there, hearing this going on in HER house, to HER son, and did nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  This woman at least deserves prison time, too.  She didn't lay a hand on the boy, but she had as much a role in his death as the sub-human that mauled him.  Fired up?  Yea, a little.

 

If the simple act of running a marathon puts one more person between a child and one of these monsters, then I'll run a damn marathon.  In fact, I'm even willing to go out there and "fail" by only running 16.5 miles.  I won't like it--I hate to fail--but it's better than sitting in the other room while someone beats a 5 year old boy to death.  A little pain, a little discomfort, a little work versus a little one being senselessly killed is more than worth it.

 

It costs Child Advocates $1500 a year to put 1 advocate with 1 child with adequate support to see a case through to the end.  I've got 1/3 of that right now.  I'd like to get the rest of the way by the end of the marathon.  Go ahead, click on the link over there on the left.  Send the good folks at Child Advocates a buck or two.  They'll appreciate the support.  They won't let you down.  They won't let these children down. 

These children are more precious than anything else anywhere in the universe.  I recon they're worth at least a buck.