Letter: Killer of four deserves the ultimate penalty

Wednesday, June 21, 2000 | 9:35 a.m.

The defense pleads Mr. Johnson was marred by poverty and abused as a child. Please! Most of us have been abused in one way or another. Does that justify going out and committing murder?

The defense couldn't find anything good about Mr. Johnson's past so they work on the compassion of pity. What happened to strictly sticking to facts in a court of law?

Why should he (Johnson) be privileged with life in jail? Whereby, life in prison means eating three meals a day, working out at the gym, writing and selling rights to a book and/or a movie -- all that at taxpayers' expense.

What about the victims' families? Don't they deserve better than a "hung jury"? Certainly their lives will never be the same.

I only hope the three-judge panel doing the sentencing takes into consideration all the facts and gives Mr. Johnson what he deserves -- the death penalty!

RITA LEONE