Nothing to Celebrate

Wesley Baker was excecuted by the State of Maryland tonight.

I am a supporter of the death penalty. I believe in the ultimate punishment for the ultimate crimes. Wesley Baker was justly punish for what he has done. Now, he must face his Creator and answer in the afterlife for what he has done on Earth.

In the end, however, what is there to celebrate. It is a good thing for the system that the justice system has been upheld, thirteen long years after the sentence was handed down.

In the end, the family of Ann Tyson, while now having closure on the man who so brutally and viciously took her life, will never see their wife, their mother, their grandmother in this life.

In the end, the Juvenile Justice system that took him in during the 1980's failed to reform him, and others.

In the end, the Correctional System that housed him, as the Sun says, for so many years, could not keep Baker from committing greater crimes, from creating more havoc, for taking a life.

In the end, justice has been served. In these kind of situations, unfortunately, that is all that we can ask for.