Victims’ family objects to death row inmate’s push for cooler temps

[TexasTowelie]

Nathaniel Code Jr. lost his right to air conditioning when he terrorized and slaughtered four people in their Shreveport home more than 30 years ago, family members of his victims say.

“Nathaniel Code … he lost all those privileges that you and I have,” said Albert Culbert Jr. “He lost that air conditioning privilege. He lost that. The Culberts, we didn’t put him on death row. He did that when he decided to take my sister’s life, and my brother, my niece, Billy Joe Harris, Deborah Ford, Mr. William, the other two little boys. He did that. And now he’s got nerve enough …”

Culbert trailed off as his sister, Barbara Culbert, spoke.

“How can he say that he’s living under cruel and unusual punishment? What he did to our family? Now that was cruel. That was unusual punishment.”

Read more: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/08/16/victims-family-objects-death-row-inmates-push-cooler-temps/31834065/

[Live and Learn]

1. 'The fact that Code wants a comfortable existence is salt in their wounds, they say.'

He is in prison and on death row. I don't see how that could be the least bit comfortable anyway. Revenge, although an understandable emotion, solves nothing. The heat and humidity in Louisiana can be unbearable and tortuous. Give them some air conditioning.

[NOLALady]

2. I did not know

that prison was meant for torture.
Silly me, I had the idea it was meant for reform and rehabilitation.

Of course there's no reform for death row inmates, so I guess the good Christians are correct in their expectation of torture.