Like Bates, Lomax, sister of Heidnik victim Sandra Lindsey, felt cheated after watching him die. You want to see them suffer. I'm not a bad person, but the way my sister left this earth, I could have seen him torn apart. I probably would have felt a lot better. But Lomax and others say that seeing their loved one's killer die closed a chapter in their lives, and for that they are thankful.
Every time there's an appeal or a stay, here comes the whole horrible story over and over again.
These are things you're trying to put in your past. What I want is for people to be able, to the greatest extent possible, to put the whole event behind them and go on with their lives. Douglass knows that all too well. He was 16 and his sister 12 when two men, Steven Keith Hatch and Glen Burton Ake, talked their way into the Douglass home in Okarche, Okla., on Oct. 15, 1979. Armed, drunk and high on drugs, they tied up the parents and children, raped the young girl, and sat down to eat the family's dinner.