We favor the death penalty. My mother was murdered in Oklahoma. We can still see her head twisted to the side with a telephone cord tied around her neck. Her ribs were broken from abuse to her small body.
The murderer had murdered before and was out on early release. No one in the neighborhood was aware of who he was or his past. He was sent to prison for life without parole. He cheated the death penalty. Cancer went through his body, he was dead in about a year and a half.
Because of my mother, Oklahoma was the second state in the nation to pass a law, Oklahoma H.B. 1853; signed by Gov. Brad Henry, that a convicted murderer/violent offender has to register like a sex offender.
Vern and Connie Davis live in Joplin. Connie Davis’ mother was murdered in her Wewoka, Okla., home in 2003. Her assailant was on parole at the time after serving 10 years of a 25-year prison sentence for first-degree manslaughter.
