Crooks' aggressive take on the crooked.

Stage Eight: Comment on a colleague’s work #2 (POST TO BE GRADED)

After stumbling onto Ms. Misti Crooks blog, “Donkey Tails, Part II” for the first time, I am immediately impressed! Crooks gets right to the point when addressing the issue of corporal punishment for a admittedly guilty man named Cary Kerr, who has been long been through every stage of the court system and then some, in her recent post entitled “When Bad Things Happen to Bad People”. “Cary Kerr feels that his impending execution should be appealed (again) because he feels like his maltreatment in his youth caused him to brutally rape and murder a woman in Fort Worth.” Despite Crooks’ rather aggressive approach to the subject, she is by no means tackling this without enough proper knowledge, after proclaiming that she looked up the original 2003 murder case details of Kerr, she really brings forth a credible argument against the offender, even if a bit harsh.

One thing that really offset me about this article though, and it’s something I’ve seen going around to a few other blogs is that, she does not give any links to any of the articles she refers to, including the original one she is referring to, and she also does not provide a link to the case details, which I did end up finding myself, rather easily I may add, but being a blog, which only succeeds by viewer readership, turning the reader away from your blog to visit a search engine seems like a striking move, maybe it’s just me.

For my take on the situation, I’m totally for it, the man sounds dangerous, and is rather openly admitting he’s unstable. However as the law stands, he must pay for the crime he has committed, his ruthlessness of the murder is really upsetting, additionally, as Crooks pointed out, “there has to be some point in the appeals process where enough is enough, and tax dollar can be put to rest on a convicted, and confessed murderer.”