Wednesday, June 6, 2007

What's the point?

Today's Boston Herald has a piece by crime reporter Michele McPhee in which she rips into a convicted murderer and the guy's sister because he has a MySpace page -- one that the sister apparently created to find a pen pal for her brother.

Francis X. Lang, 32, was sentenced last year to life in prison for the murder of
Suffolk County deputy sheriff Ricky Dever outside a Charlestown bar. I know nothing about the case, and I have no reason to doubt McPhee's version of the facts, which I assume are the prosecution's description of what happened. It just seems, however, that she is scoring easy points by shooting at fish in a barrel.

No one is going to sympathize with Lang, but if the point is really to have someone for him to exchange letters with, then what is the problem? And how can anyone blame another person for caring about a close family member, no matter what inexcusable things they've done?

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