Execution of Gacy
The execution of John Wayne Gacy (May 10) was a sad spectacle. People marched the streets of Chicago demanding Gacy’s execution, a prosecutor declared that it would be “a privilege to see him draw his last breath,” and law enforcement officers threw a party to celebrate the extinguishment of life. These people have succumbed to hatred, becoming killers just like Gacy.
Gandhi said that “an eye for an eye makes us all blind.” We need to open our eyes and see that state-sanctioned killing cheapens the value of life for all of us.
ROBERT M. MYERS
Sherman Oaks
What a strange world we live in!
A killer like Gacy who brutally murdered 33 young men and buried them under his house is put to death in the most peaceful way imaginable--an injection to induce sleep. Followed by two more to stop his cardiac and respiratory functions.
Yet someone like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who in my eyes is an angel, has been taken into police custody and battles with the law for simply trying to help people with terminal illnesses die with dignity and without pain.
How ironic that decent human beings must be forced to suffer the daily tortures of living with long, debilitating diseases, when there is not any hope of recovery. While the Gacys--who inflict suffering--suffer not at all!
LINDA TAPIA
Woodland Hills
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