Asner’s Plea for Killer
Re “Ed Asner Testifies on Convicted Killer’s Behalf,” Oct. 4: Kenneth Gay murdered a police officer in 1985. Gay confessed to the murder and was convicted by the courts. Additionally, the conviction was upheld on appeal. To a jury considering a sentence of life in prison versus death, Ed Asner testifies that this man should not be executed because he has writing talent. Gay wrote a “wonderfully encouraging” screenplay.
I am confused! Perhaps the murderer in the next cell should not be executed because he is a wonderful carpenter. The man in the third cell is a wonderful bus driver. My question is, why allow one murderer to live because he is a wonderful writer but execute the other two murderers because they do not have the talent to be writers?
STEPHEN SILVERS
Los Angeles
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