When I was in my teens, I was visiting family out of state and one day they said they were taking the entire family to this museum that used to be the state prison until about ten years before.
One of the guides through the museum tour was former guard, who had retired right along when the prison was retired. He spent thirty years at the prison and knew every square inch of the place. He also knew some of the darker tales the prison had to offer.
At one point in the tour, he told a story of a man who had broken into a house and killed a single mother and her two young children in their sleep.
He had been sentenced to life in prison, pleading guilty to be spared of the death penalty. After he had been at the prison about six months the man was cut up like a Thanksgiving turkey by other inmates who had found out what he had done.
There’s something even the worst in our society can’t stomach about the savage killing of defenseless women and children. Even the worst of the worst have standards.
Recently a Canadian serial killed named Robert Pickton, known in Canada as “The Pig Farmer Killer” was brutally attacked in what some would call an act of revenge by another inmate. He is not presently expected to survive from the injuries sustained in the attack.
The grisly nature of the attack on Pickton is almost justifiable given the fact that he was convicted of murdering six women but suspected of at least twenty more. A fellow inmate stabbed him in the head with a broom handle that had been sharpened down, with those close to the situation describing it more as a spearing than a stabbing.
Given the graphic nature of the injuries that one would sustain after being stabbed in the head with a sharpened down broom handle, it wouldn’t exactly take a genius to figure out that Pickton is not going to survive.
Pickton was originally convicted of the grisly murders in 2007.
The only question is what took someone so long to step up to the plate and do what the Canadian government couldn’t do with someone that had committed so many horrible murders against so many innocent people.