Immoral Technicality

Re “Court Voids Death Sentence,” Nov. 8: Why is Demetrie L. Mayfield still alive? Fifteen years after he steals a car and kills, with a shotgun, the owner of the car for calling the police and her neighbor for being a witness, why is he still breathing? He confessed the next day! There are no redeeming qualities that should keep this man alive. I don’t care about his rough childhood, diabetes or drug use. What about his victims, Ora Mae Pope and John Moreno? Mayfield at least had a lawyer; unfortunately, the people he killed didn’t get that option.

Allan Hearn

North Hollywood