The door to Hell

Rick Tosches admits to being a liberal. He also admits to being for the death penalty when it comes to a killer named Nathan Dunlap, whom Tosches refers to as "Mr. Smirky." Tosches sat in the courtroom and watched Dunlap laugh and smirk at the victim's families.

After seventeen years of smirking at the victims and their families, Dunlap faces execution on August 18. Now, he says he regrets what he did. Tosches writes,

What he regrets — the only thing he regrets — is the end of the appeals process and a slow, shackled walk to the death chamber.

With any luck at all, on a warm summer day or cool Colorado evening this August, he will have a lethal drug pumped into a vein and he will die.

I hope the door to hell hits him in the rear end on his way in.