Mark Dean Schwab, 39, is scheduled to die exactly 16 years after he was sentenced in the 1991 kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez. This will be the first execution of a Florida inmate since 2006. For many years I did not support the death penalty. I had believed it to be cruel and barbaric. This was the case that swayed me in a different direction. I will never forget the sadness in the eyes of the parents of Junny Rios-Martinez on the news. It was haunting. This family has waited so long for justice, Now they will get the closure they need.
I wondered today what goes through the mind of a death row inmate who now faces imminent death on Thursday. I wondered if he feels as tortured as that young boy as his life was taken. I wonder if he feels any remorse at all. Perhaps he feels relieved after waiting so long for his sentence to be carried out. I know I would feel terror and impossible anguish, but then again I could not even conceive of taking a life of another. Do killers with no sense of conscience feel the same fear as those who respect life? Junny's family will watch the execution of the man that snuffed out the vibrant life of their son. I do not think I could possibly bear to watch someone die justified or not. It would just be to hard to bear.
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