slowguy wrote:
The certainly implies that he views this particular crime as more egregious than all the other crimes for which he wouldn't support the death penalty.Sheesh. Lighten up people. That's not what I read in the OP at all. When reading about the events of this crime, it's natural to have an impassioned response where you turn off rationality for a second. "Fuck it. Let the dude fry." It absolutely does not mean that he's rationally placed his crime in an ordinal list with all other conceivable crimes and found it to be the highest. The "one night only" is kind of a clue.
He's just being a damn human for an instant, not playing SCOTUS judge. Let him do that!