One night in September 2007, Robert Sparks murdered his wife, stabbing her eighteen times. He then stabbed his two stepsons to death. He also had two stepdaughters; they were spared, but he raped them both.
Sparks was convicted of these unspeakable crimes. In Texas, that can mean only one thing. He was sentenced to death, and as usual, it took the Lone Star State a long time to carry out the execution. He was finally strapped to a gurney in September 2019. An eleven year gap between conviction and execution is far from exceptional, but even for the “obviously guilty”, there is an extensive appeal process in capital cases, the first appeal being mandatory.
Sparks was indeed obviously guilty. There was never any question that these crimes were committed by him and him alone. If ever there was a fitting subject for execution, it was him: three murders, shattering the lives of the two survivors. Bringing grief and distress to relatives, friends, neighbours, schoolmates of the victims... Why should even the most ardent abolitionist shed a tear or bat an eyelid at the execution of a monster like Robert Sparks?
Strangely, that is not how the clowns at Execution Watch see it. This august organisation was founded by a deluded individual with the unfortunate name of Ray Hill. Unlike his English namesake, Hill is no longer with us, he died last year. Ray Hill was a man who was proud to call some of the most odious human beings on this planet his friends. Ray may be gone, but the clown show continues, you see, what Execution Watch found so outrageous about the Robert Sparks case was not his crimes, but the fact that during his trial, a court bailiff was seen wearing a black tie embroidered with a white syringe.
Execution Watch considered this to be highly prejudicial. That’s right. They objected to a prejudicial tie pin more than to a triple murder with a double rape of underage girls thrown in. Unreal.
Although Sparks was black, his wife was too, so the race card wouldn’t fly. That doesn’t usually stop race hustlers, but even Al Sharpton wouldn’t touch this one with a bargepole. So what do Execution Watch and their ilk fall back on? Intellectual disability and the chimera of mental illness.
Sparks was said to have believed his family was trying to poison him. That claim appears to be true, but so what? According to one report, he had an IQ of only 75, which is low, but not as low for blacks as for whites. That being said, there are plenty of total retards out there who go through life without committing even one murder. Also, Sparks could drive a car. No one who can drive a car is so mentally challenged or intellectually disabled that he cannot be held accountable for his actions. And does it make sense to execute intelligent people but not retards?
Burn in Hell, bubba.
