... the terror we felt as those news reports broke.  Random shootings at a gas station and a Home Depot.  A bus driver ready to start his route.  A crazy person, we said.  Who else would do something like this.  And then relief when the two men were in custody and the shootings stopped.  Sympathy of sorts for the teen.  Rage toward the other, the ringleader.  So much rage.  Maybe that is why it only took 7 years to execute him, instead of the 20+ it often takes for death penalty cases to wind their way through the justice system.  Relatives of the victims say they feel better now.  Really?  When the government does its eye-for-an-eye thing, does it bring back the dead?  Did it heal your broken heart?

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