El Cerrito victims' son: Don't execute killer

[thatsrightimirish]

Eric Rogers was 17 when he saw his parents stabbed and bludgeoned to death by his own uncle at their El Cerrito home just before dawn in January 2006.

The convicted murderer, a trucker named Edward Wycoff from the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights, is as unsympathetic as they come. He insists he deserves to be rewarded for ridding the world of two evil people, that he knew how to raise his sister's three kids better than she and her husband did, and that besides, they had the gall not to invite him over for Christmas.

I think it would be wrong for you to get the death penalty," Rogers told Wycoff, who has been acting as his own attorney in Contra Costa County Superior Court. "You, specifically, because you are mentally childish and immature for your age."
"Killing and hatred is something I associate with my uncle, not my parents," he said."

What a horrible story. But to watch your parents die and instead of opting for some type of revenge this man stuck to his principles. Could not have been easy because I'm sure there were people in his family who disagreed with him. What do you guys think?

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/02/BAV81ADVM6.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0Vkxa1x21

[Taverner]

1. Support or not of the DP goes beyond principle

I don't feel sorry for "Ed" at all - let him burn

But I don't agree with the DP because once you make it the punishment, then the innocent might get it. The Justice System has failed way too many people for me to put the trust of life and death into it.

[marmar]

2. I have great respect for Mr. Rogers.....

..... As much as the bastard deserves whatever horrid punishment he gets, society does not become better by doing the thing it purports to hold in contempt.