I get it. You read some true crime news about some scumbag who tortures his own babies to death and think: take him out back and shoot him in the head. One and done. Easy.
But the reality of the death penalty is the U.S.A. is more like this:
Another Notch in the Spine
The following is the first draft of a short story for a collection I am working on. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! --Patrick On the morning of my first kill, I woke up before Mom had come to get me. I gazed up at the concrete ceiling, where the night before, Dad helped...
