'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez Should Have Fried

Or f-king choked, even though California no longer uses the gas chamber.

From the letters to the editor, at the Los Angeles Times, "Letters: Ramirez's non-execution an injustice":

Re "'Night Stalker' lived violently, dies in his hospital bed," June 8.

The fact that serial killer Richard Ramirez was able to die of natural causes while on California's death row shows the injustice of our justice system. His victims suffered. Many died.

Ramirez's living all these years while those he killed laid in graves was wrong. His being able to live off a system because of rights and laws is a slap in the face to everyone he hurt. After all, his victims were not protected like he was.

Ramirez was guilty, and nothing changed that over time. He should have been executed.

George Vreeland Hill
Beverly Hills

I tweeted so much when I first heard the news.

From the killer's Wikipedia page: "At the time of his death, Ramirez had been on death row for more than 23 years, awaiting execution by the state of California."