We need not be happy he is dead, but he was not a good man and this world will be no less sunny a place without him. What this case exposes is America's deeply ingrained confusion between procedural fairness and cosmic fairness. If his trial was unfair I feel as much sympathy for him as I would if his getaway car wouldn't start, or in this case, if he grew unexpectedly weary after a week of shooting, raping, and robbing. I don't know. Alas, due-process arguments never flew too far with my parents, and they don't now with their son.
Guilt is guilt.
It is unfortunate, rather, for us, because it undermines the integrity of our justice system. And the Left has caught on to this. And it is a legitimate argument. It is an understatement of Biblical proportions to say that the integrity of our system is more important than people like Gary Graham. Imagine my shock to discover that Alan Dershowitz, that pillar of asininity, agrees with me at least on the point that we need not mourn Graham.