This is in response to the Feb. 25 article concerning the life imprisonment sentence for Zackery Mailloux for the brutal and senseless murder of Brooke Locke.

In cases like that, I don’t understand how people can argue against capital punishment. I know the death sentence doesn’t bring back the victim, may not deter someone from doing something like that and that two wrongs don’t make a right. But in the Locke case, and others like it, it simply seems to me to be the right thing to do for the sake of the victim and her family.

A life sentence is far too generous for that admitted animal who took a precious life due to jealousy.

Don’t we owe it to the victim?

Dan Howard, Auburn