Child killer deserves death penalty

DuPage County used to be one of the finest places to raise a family. But that was a long time ago.

I want to examine the decision of the DuPage County prosecutor to offer Kaushik Patel life in prison after pleading guilty to setting his two sons on fire. The boys languished in a hospital for several months before dying. How painful that must have been.

Initially seeking the death penalty against Mr. Patel, which is the correct punishment, DuPage County prosecutors decided to back off and made a deal. I can't imagine what kind of reasoning (or perhaps it is called jurisprudence) was used to not apply the death penalty, replaced with a lifetime of three squares and a cot for Mr. Patel. As a voter and taxpayer, I object.

Please don't mail letters to my house that say the death penalty is cruel and unusual or not cost effective or does not deter crime. It is the law. You pour gasoline on another human being and light them up, especially children; mine, yours or someone else's, I'm not sorry to say that you deserve the death penalty. This is just another example of government not doing its job.

James M Dunne

Addison