When Bad Things Happen to Bad People...

I feel bad for people who were abused, neglected or mistreated as children... I really do. But because a person was a victim as a child should not give them a hallpass out of punishment for crimes they commit as adults. Cary Kerr feels that his impending execution should be appealed (again) because he feels like his maltreatment in his youth caused him to brutally rape and murder a woman in Fort Worth. I'm sorry, but every person who has a bad background doesn't kill people. I'm not saying that I don't feel for the guy, if he really was sexually abused as a child, but he was tried and convicted of his crime. The appeals process has been exhausted and now he is seeking a backdoor out of his execution through the new Office of Capitol Writs. This office was written into legislation to provide legal support for death row inmates in Texas. Kerr's attorney seems to be trying to say that there wasn't enough evidence admitted into trial to help make the jury sympathetic for the killer. I looked up the 2003 murder details, and it was brutal. If I was sitting on a jury, I would undoubtedly convict him based on his confession and the gruesomeness of the crime. Now, I'm not a death penalty proponent, but there has to be some point in the appeals process where enough is enough, and tax dollars can be put to rest on a convicted, and confessed murderer.