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Originally Posted by John_W

On July 22, 2007, as repeated blows from a Louisville Slugger rained down on his head, Dr. William Petit awoke in a house of horrors — his own.



His wife and their two daughters were right upstairs in the Connecticut house, and things would only get worse.



Two lowlife thugs held the Petits hostage for seven terrifying hours. The doctor’s wife was raped, his youngest daughter sexually assaulted, and their house set afire.



Only Petit escaped with his life.



It was close to 10 a.m. on a rainy summer morning when Petit finally escaped and rolled, with his ankles still bound, into a neighbor’s driveway. He banged on the garage door.



Dave Simcik looked down on the bloody, beaten man at his feet, but didn’t recognize Petit. Soon enough, the cops were on top of the doctor with their guns drawn.



“The girls!” Petit howled. “The girls are in the house!”



Petit had fallen asleep on the sunroom couch the previous night. His wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, had multiple sclerosis and usually went to bed early. Petit, to avoid disturbing her, would often sleep on the sofa.



The baseball bat attack roused the doctor from his slumber sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Blood was pouring over his eyes — Petit was on a blood thinner for a heart condition — but he noticed one of his two assailants was carrying what looked like a 9-mm. handgun.



The pair bound his ankles and wrists with plastic ties pulled so tight they cut into his flesh, all the while demanding to know where the safe was.



So you're saying after their day in court, and the many, many appeals to follow. The execution of these two thugs is the same as what they did to this family? I don't think so, your definition of murder is much different than mine. If you had no religion, would you still think the same? Almost every war in this world, was started in one form or another because of religion.

It's human nature wanting to avenge a heinous crime using capital punishment as a tool for the state. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering this family went through. But I do know this. Institutionized capital murder will not bring the victims back nor will it alleviate the nightmares and daily horrors that the survivors surely experience day after day. So tell me, what will state sanctioned executions actually accomplish? It has been proven that in no way does it PREVENT crimes like this from occurring by other perpetrators nor does it allow our society to progress to a higher level.