Who out there, besides me, watched the BK sentencing yesterday? I choose only his initials so as to not stain the page with his name. To me, his initials refer to Brutal Killer. I shall go one step further and simply refer to him as the masculine gender he-him-his.
It's impossible to fathom what his mind was thinking as the victims faced him with their intense heartbreak, their anger, their frustration, their hatred. He sat through the entire sentencing process like an empty cardboard box. No emotions. No reactions. No remorse. No nothing. When it came time for him to say something----anything---he uttered I respectfully decline. Who among us wouldn't have liked to slap his face. He should've said I cowardly decline.
At the sentencing, we witnessed family members struggle to speak, trying their hardest not to fall apart as people around the world watched them face off with the devil himself. Talk about courage. Talk about resilience. We watched goodness trample and stomp on the head of evil. Isn't it sad that his expressionless face, those demonic eyes, are pasted on our brains. That empty stare would absolutely be recognizable by all of us in a crowd of people.
So, now he is tucked away in a maximum security prison. We wash our hands of him. Back in the 1980s, my job gave me the opportunity to tour a maximum security prison. That was back in the 80's, remember. I can still hear the iron doors slam shut behind us. When we got to where the worst of the worst were kept, we females were locked inside the guard's cubicle. Why? Because chances were really good that the prisoners would throw their feces at us females. I remember walking in the bull pen yard among the hard-core prisoners (with only one armed guard) as they stared at us up and down with God knows what thoughts in their heads. We females had to wear coats that covered us down below our knees. What I saw that day, what I learned that day, sticks with me like super glue. It was another world, another planet. This was in the 1980s. I walked into the solitary confinement part of the prison. What I saw there is as clear to me today as it was 40 years ago.
What's BK's day like today? Oh, he'll undergo a month of processing and an extensive medical/behavioral evaluation. The prison staff will decide where to put him. You Tube has many people who talk about what he faces, but the ones to listen to are those who have spent years in a max-security prison and know first hand. Despite what we on the outside are told, things ain't looking good for BK, the brutal killer.
There's been a lot in the news about the plea deal that was made. The death penalty is a controversy. Until we have someone we love slaughtered and left in a river of their own blood, we can't understand wanting someone else to die. We each have our own ways of thinking, and I land on the side of the plea deal. Death would have been a blessing for BK. Experience tells us that death row can be a 20-year process. What the plea deal got is an open confession, years of time weren't wasted in getting to and through a trial, no more continuances, and the families don't have to endure the gory details that would have been part of his trial. With the plea agreement, he relinquished his right to an appeal. He's cooked. For the rest of his life, sleep may become his fiercest enemy. He will have haunting and torturing nightmares where he will re-live his bloody brutality. A life sentence for this savage beast is just what he deserves.
