Do you believe in the death penalty as listeners of this show at a certain point it's hard not to believe in it right for the vast majority of us we probably have some suck alums maybe a lot of former subjects that we would love to see wiped off the face of the earth, or former subjects whose deaths we did cheer when we heard about their execution.

It's hard not to cheer with a serial killer who has forever altered the lives of many people and their

families, ended the lives of many people, finally gets their due. And on another

level the death penalty suits a very practical purpose, not just justice for the families but as a means of permanently

removing someone who is a guaranteed threat to society, someone who has essentially no chance

at rehabilitation, someone who can and for sure will kill again.

In a very literal sense, the death penalty might be the only way of 100% ensuring that these people never run free again.

That no legal technicality or law being changed suddenly allows them.

Somebody who is supposed to be in prison for life

with no possibility of parole to walk free again.

The death penalty maybe not necessary all the time, but many of us feel that when it is

necessary, it is very necessary.

And nobody would embody this more than Kenneth Allen McDuff.

Raised in the quaint hamlet of Rosebud Texas in the middle of the 20th century,

McDuff should have been your classic all-American boy.

His father, J.A. owned a successful concrete and construction company,

his mom owned a laundromat, in a town where almost everyone knew everyone.

A town that loved going to church on Sunday after

barbecue and having some beers on Saturday and after cheering for the high school football game

on Friday night. But of course, Kenneth McDuff would be anything but the

classic All-American boy.

J.A. was actually a very absent father, constantly preoccupied with his work, and many gossip

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