Reason First: Was Prisoner Jonathan Watson in the Right?

What does it take for a man to take the lives of two prisoners? Is it because he is already serving a life sentence for murder? Does evil ever get the chance to cancel out two evils? In Corcoran, California, Jonathan Watson, 41, a convicted felon serving time for a 2009 murder struck down two pedophiles while behind bars. This is a classic situation. The idea of what happens to child molesters, rapists, and other monsters is often regarded lower than even murder when the metal cage is locked and shut.

Watson’s motivation for the slayings remains the fact that one of the men tuned into a children’s program on the television in the correctional facility. This enraged Watson who beat the man with a cane until the inmate, identified as 48-year-old David Bobb, expired. Next, Watson pummeled 62-year-old Graham De Luis-Conti with the same cane until he died. Both men had been locked up for life because of aggravated assault against minors.

But the real question may also be...where did Watson get the murder weapon, the walking cane? As we who have viewed the film The Irishman know, “they’re not going to give you a cane in the can because they say you’re going to use it as a weapon.” Maybe times have changed. So, was this phantom cane just “miraculously” placed in Watson’s hands the day of the murders? Did he have any connections with the corrections officers? Even one such official quipped whether Watsom was going to hit him with the cane.

Watson is no real hero. One ought not praise a wicked man for committing an action that could have been handled by the state. Instead of bashing the heads of these two other monsters, Watson could’ve asked for a way to ensure that he and the other lifers get the death penalty for their crimes. He could have argued that none involved is fit for existence. A murderer and two child molesters aren’t exactly model citizens. Their lives became worthless when they violated legal and moral reality.

Watson ought to be tried and punished by whatever means that the law courts outline. More years may be tacked onto his sentence to prevent the possibility for parole. And again, death may be the only answer to this entire case.

It’s understood that pedophiles are the scum of the earth that prey upon the most vulnerable individuals in society. But it doesn’t make it better for a convicted felon and murderer to take justice into his own hands. But at the same time, this should be a landmark case for any pedophiles who wish to continue their viciousness. While it may not be legal for inmates to harm others, it happens more often than people may think. And in this situation, it has become blown up to wide proportions. Like a cancer infecting one organ and then spreading to others, the idea of assaulting and killing a fellow inmate is devastating. Especially if the inmate is innocent of a crime and still behind the wall, then it is much worse. But for Bobb and De Luis-Conti, they will serve as examples to the horrid nature of those who choose to fondle young children.

While Watson may be viewed as someone who canceled evils, he must still be held as a miscreant himself for his previous misdeeds. He has no right to violate one of the only rights that these two men held: life. He did not use reason to execute these monsters. And he said it himself. As he writes in a letter, "I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should've done right then and there, so I packed all of my things because I knew one way or another the situation would be resolved the following day.” This “instinct” that Watson felt was just not a part of rational thought. Men have no instincts but free will and the capacity to think. It’s too bad that all three monsters couldn’t experience the supreme hand of justice. But Watson is the one who still has the opportunity.