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  • Essay / The Death Penalty for the Greater Good - 523

    On Tuesday, July 29, 1981, the bodies of eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother Christopher were found in a coal dump in Old Forge , Pennsylvania. Just two days after the bodies were discovered, fifteen-year-old Joseph Aulisio, a member of the search team, was arrested for the murders. He had lured the two children to a house under construction owned by his father and shot them from just 10 feet away, Cheryl was shot in the head and Christopher was shot in the chest. To date, no motive has been established as to why Aulisio wanted to kill these two children. Nearly a year later, in May 1982, a jury sentenced the then 16-year-old to death. He was nonchalantly chewing gum as the jurors presented him with their sentence, then turned to his father and pumped his fist in the air, shouting, "It's a party." time!". 34 years have passed since this conviction and Aulisio remains in prison without any sign of remorse. So why would the death penalty not be applied to someone so inhuman and removed from society? Why do not eliminate this being from society ...