Evil in our Midst

A man accused of being the serial killer known as BTK -- for "Bind, Torture, Kill" -- today pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder. Dennis Rader then matter-of-factly described how he committed the crimes. "I had never strangled anyone before, so I really didn't know how much pressure you had to put on a person or how long it would take," he said.

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Rader looks French, but France outlawed the guillotine in 1981.

Hanging; Delaware had one in 1996, but has since changed methods. Only Washington State still employs the noose, although not since 1994 and only by choice of the condemned.

If only we could stretch him, like Mel Gibson's character in Braveheart. Stretch him and then gut him like a deer.

Or, as Al Swearingen would do in Deadwood, turn him over to Wu and have him fed to the pigs.

But, alas, he is in Kansas. He'll do life, with a parole option.