Letter: Killer Floyd has not been punished at all

Friday, Sept. 15, 2000 | 9:39 a.m.

She also asks, "Who has the right to sit in judgment over another human being?" The law of this land, the courts, the trial process, the jury, chosen from people of the community -- that's who. We are a civilized race of people who all must live by the law, so we may have order and protection for everyone. When someone deliberately breaks the law, they will answer to the law.

On the morning of June 3, 1999, after terrorizing, threatening death and raping a young woman, Floyd went to an Albertson's on West Sahara and in cold blood killed four employees and critically wounded a fifth.

Our son-in-law, Chuck Leos, the frozen food manager, was the second victim. Zane Floyd shot Chuck twice, with a shotgun at close range.

Chuck didn't die right away. According to the first police officer on the scene, Chuck, lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, took his last gasp of breath, and died alone. He must have suffered horribly before he found relief in death.

Part of all of our family died with him that day, including our daughter, who was left a widow at 33. All of their plans for the future, their hopes and dreams all blown away by shotgun blasts from Floyd, who wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.

Floyd murdered them, and Zander thinks he has been punished enough. What is she thinking? He hasn't been punished at all yet. He won't be punished enough until he's lying on a gurney in Carson City.

We, the victims' families, are being punished every day while he lives.

SYLVIA KELLOGG