I'm glad that he is dead. I'm glad that so many family and friends of the victims are now able to find closure and start the healing process (as quoted by like a zillion - figure of speech - people who witnessed the execution).
If he had any sort of conscious, then yes, maybe letting him suffer by thinking about his crimes would have done some good. But he no more cares about those people today than he did when he murdered them. He wanted to die, and from the latest poll, Americans wanted him dead (7-1 on my way to work at 7:45 EDST). I certainly did!
I had to smile at an idea I heard over the weekend -- someone said that he should be tied down to the spot where the building was, and the victims family and friends should get to stone him with the stones from all the rubble that he created. Very painful -- no it wasn't my idea -- just made me smile to think about justice served.
Anybody watch "That's My Bush" on Comedy Central? If not, there was an episode where his frat buddies came to visit, and they wanted to watch a real execution - so Bush arranged for a "fake" prisoner to be "executed" so his buddies would leave -- turns out that he ended up killing a real prisoner -- but the funniest part was when Bush said to the Priest to read from the Bible -- the Priest started in with the readings, and Bush grabbed the Bible and said to the prisoner "You have the right to die like a little bitch, and may your soul burneth in hell!" -- it was so hilarious! Love that show -- but that basically sums up how I feel about Timothy McVeigh.
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