Treat ‘mad dogs’ like dogs they are
We shoot mad dogs, don’t we? There is no way to humanely deal with a mad dog. Keeping it locked up until it dies isn’t humane. We don’t make excuses for the dog’s actions that it was mistreated as a puppy, that it has a disease, etc. We just recognize that this dog can’t be allowed to live among us.
Anyone who commits a heinous crime deserves to be treated like a mad dog. Raping, sodomizing and killing a 7-year-old child are heinous crimes.
How we “shoot” such a criminal is not the issue.
D.L. Budnick