BTK Killer Sentencing from Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166072,00.html

I have a hard time with my feelings about the BTK killer (Dennis Rader), and I am not sure why. I have never felt this way about anyone who has been convicted of a crime like this (or killing anyone, for that matter).

He is, by his own admittance, a monster. I know he is crazy, he is very, very guilty of everything he was charged with and prison is where he belongs. I understand that there is no rehabilitating a person like him.

Why do I feel sympathy for him then? I don’t think sympathy is the right word, but I cannot come up with the right one. I don’t feel sympathetic for him in any sort of way like I think he should have a light sentence, or that he is not deserving of the most harsh punishment that could be given to him. In fact, I think it is a real shame that they did not have the death sentence as a possibility for him. I don’t feel any sense that he did not do what he has admitted, and been convicted of doing. What he has done is truly horrible and inhuman and completely psychotic, and I don’t believe that people like this have a chance in the world of being rehabilitated. Why then do I feel this way?

I feel like he has tried to fight his psychotic homocidal urges. He held a marriage together for 25 years. He was the president of his church congregation. And I think he got himself busted because he was about to lose control and kill again. Maybe some of the sympathetic feelings I have come from the fact that he was Lutheran (like me). I really don’t know, or understand why.

I can’t even begin to imagine what goes through your mind when you are a serial killer, but for some reason, I see him as more than just a monster, but a man who has fought the Devil for his whole life, and finally admitted defeat. Thank God he did, or there might have been even more killings. Maybe this makes him a more horrible monster than any of the other mass murderers in history. I just don’t know, and I probably don’t want to know.

I pray that he will be taken from this world soon, and that wherever he ends up, that he will be freed from his madness.