(From Number23) AA Posters and Fam: How do you feel about the death penalty?

[Number23]

11. And Dahmer wound up meeting even more justice once he got to jail

I'm sorry but that's what his death in jail felt like to me. Justice.

Dahmer was a prime example of the sort of racism that affects the lives of minorities in EVERY conceivable way. One of his victims was a teenaged (I think Asian) boy and English was not his first language. By the grace of God or somebody, after being lured to Dahmer's apartment and being brutalized, that boy was able to get away from Dahmer.

He ran out into the street, half naked, drugged and bleeding. And older black woman came to his aid and took him over to two white, male cops. The woman begged the cops to take the boy away but the word of an older black woman and an obviously distressed non-white teenaged boy meant next to nothing to these cops. So when Dahmer came out and told the cops the boy was "with him" and walked off with him, the protestations of that woman and even the boy meant nothing. The cops actually laughed as they handed that boy back over to Dahmer joking about the "gay" stuff the two obviously had planned.

God only knows what special hell that child's last hours were like on this earth. And if only the woman pleading for his life had been white, maybe he would have been able to get away from that sadistic monster.