The return of the death penalty

I am not very conservative, I think. I always slate the Americans for shamelessly advocating that they are the 'land of the free', while they keep the death penalty. But sometimes my animal instinct prevails, and this is one of these times.

This story has been all over the news for a couple of days now and I still cannot believe my ears: a "father" who has sexually abused his daughter for decades, at some point locked her in a cellar, and kept her there for 24 years, raping her repeatedly and fathered 7 (SEVEN!!!) children from her. Ah, one of them died and then he burned it in the oven. HE BURNED HIS DEAD BABY IN THE OVEN. And all this while his "legal" family was living upstairs. I mean, how sick, unbelievable, profoundly awful is this?

It is in cases like this, that I think, us Europeans might actually benefit from the re-introduction of the death penalty.
But my reader do not be deceived. I don't want the death penalty for that misuse of the term "father". He does not need it. All he needs is to be locked into the same cellar and stay there for the end of his days. Maybe that and some "ghost" images of his children playing in the background for additional effect.

The death penalty should be reserved for his wife. His wife who says was "unaware". I mean, is there any possibility that this is true? Don't you know what kind of monster you got married to? He abuses your daughter from the age of 11 until 18, in your own house, and you are "unaware"? He then pretends that she ran away and locks her up in the cellar downstairs and you are "unaware"? She forbids you to go to the cellar and you obey, you don't even think that something is not right here? He tells you that babies arrive in your doorstep and you suspect nothing? Isn't this criminal negligence?

I think the worst type of criminals, the serial killers, the sadistic monsters, usually lead fairly lonely lives. This is because if someone was close to them, they would know, they would figure it out, what kind of monsters they are. This woman, wants us to believe that she lived with a monster for a lifetime and never, EVER understood or suspected anything? I don't think so...
I would reserve the death penalty for her.

My religious studies teacher at school had an obsession with the parable of the good samaritan. Everyone knows the story: poor guy is attacked by a thug and left to die. First passer-by comes by and does nothing. Second passer-by comes by and does nothing. Then the good samaritan comes by and helps the guy, all is good. Our teacher used to ask us "who does bad in this story?" Most of the students would say that the thug who mugged the poor guy is the one that does bad. Then our teacher would say no, the passer-by's who DID NOT DO GOOD also did bad. Absence of good equals bad. This woman, this "mother" who claims that she didn't know anything, this woman who did nothing also did bad. Maybe even a greater bad than the actual monster of this story.