The Trial

There he stood in his newly acquired wire-rim glasses, button down and v-neck, listening to the jury foreman read the verdicts of some 40 charges. He hardly blinked as he heard the word GUILTY repeated over and over and over. His court-appointed lawyers put on masks of disappointment. The prosecution kept their faces as expressionless as possible. Their celebration will no doubt come later. The victims' families received the verdicts in silent dignity, save for an occasional fist pump from Cowboy. The defendant's family...well there didn't seem to be any.
But come tomorrow, as part of the process, the members of Davidson's family who could be talked into taking part in the IMPACT STATEMENT segment of the trial, will one by one get up on the witness stand and tell the jury why their cousin/brother/nephew's life should be spared. Likewise, Channon Christian's family and Christopher Newsom's family will take the witness stand to beg the jury, who already decided that Lemarcus Davidson with forethought and malice did kill their children, should die as well. Anything less than the death penalty won't satisfy the Christian's or the Newsom's. The pain must be unbearable for them.
Think of it this way: To lose a child to cancer is a tragedy, but you would still want a cure for cancer to be discovered even after your child's death, so that other parents would not have to suffer as you did. I think what these parents are saying is this: "Don't let the monster who murdered our innocent children live because he is the cancer of society and there is a cure for this kind of cancer. Kill the bastard."