Ebpm, I was thinking today about this case when I heard that the jurors chose the death penalty. I was wondering if perhaps because this criminal had said that he wanted the death penalty made you think that he felt remorse or that he actually felt he deserved death for the horrors he committed. Then I realized that he quite likely would prefer to have the death sentence rather than life in prison because prison inmates often will abuse other inmates who have harmed children. Perhaps he wanted the death sentence because he knew he would be safe if he were not mixed in with the general prison population and he wanted the seclusion where he would be protected from other inmates. Bad things happen in prison to people who harmed children and raping an 11 year old girl and torturing her for 7 hours before setting her on fire with gasoline would make a whole lot of people want to hurt him. Just sayin'.