Death penalty for rapists?

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Steven Thompson was executed in Alabama’s electric chair in May 1998 for the 1984 rape and murder of Robin Balarzs. The prosecutor at Steve’s trial described Robin’s killing as extraordinarily chilling in its savagery and prolonged infliction of agony. She was brutally beaten, bound and gagged, raped and stabbed before being dragged behind a car for 3000 feet.

I went to high school with Robin and Steve and knew them both. Robin was 3 years older than me so I only knew her in passing. Steve was just a year behind me though, and I knew him fairly well. I knew him well enough to know that he was a crazy dangerous son of a bitch.

The really sad part about Robin’s death was it could have been prevented. She wasn’t the first woman Steve raped. He had previously raped another classmate of ours in 1981. He beat, raped and left her tied naked to a tree. I have no reason to doubt that given the opportunity Steve would have done something similar again, and of am the opinion that the world is a better place without him in it.