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Remember when the Trib used to advocate Midwestern Republican values? Now they publish crap like this:

• As he walked out of prison a free man earlier this month, Jessie Rankins barely greeted his wife, exchanging only a few words without kissing or hugging her. He hadn't seen her in 2 1/2 years. It was their fourth wedding anniversary.
  
  "I'll feel better when I see my dog," he said a short time later.
  
  Rankins isn't a household name, but his crime was among the most notorious murders in Chicago history.
  
  Just a scrawny boy in 1994, he and a friend abducted 5-year-old Eric Morse, dangled the screaming boy out a 14th-floor window at a public housing high-rise and dropped him to his death. Eric had refused to steal candy for them, prosecutors said.

The entire article is some bullshit about this piece of garbage and his partner who dropped a child about 140 feet to his death. Think about that. One hundred forty feet straight down into solid earth. That's about 3 seconds of free fall reaching a speed somewhere near 40 meters a second at impact. What wasn't splintered in Eric Morse was pulverized. Some of us here worked in a bunch of those buildings and their twins before they tore them all down. Talk about godforsaken shit holes.

And the story seems to be that we should feel sorry for these two assholes because they were "raised" in prison, can't read, can't hold jobs, and have been in and out of prison in the intervening twenty years due to their choices.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

It would have been a fucking mercy if these two were drowned at birth. And it'd be another fucking blessing if they were both crushed to death by steamrollers.