Look At Me, I'm Shonda Dee...

The Supreme Court turns away a death row inmates request to declare the death penalty unconstitutional.

The AP story in the Delcotimes doesn't provide much info about the petitioner.

Meet Shonda Dee Walter…

On March 25, 2003, Walter killed her neighbor, James Sementelli, 83, as part of a gang initiation and robbery. Walter slashed Sementelli 66 times with a 10-inch hatchet as he begged for his life. Witnesses also said that during killing, she stopped to say the Lord’s Prayer, carved a cross in the victim’s stomach as he was dying, watched television, and ate ice cream. She then took $510 and Sementelli’s car.

We're not big fans of the death penalty because it is so costly and time-consuming to implement thanks to lawyers, judges and anti-death penalty activists. Still, we don't lose any sleep when killers like Shonda get what they definitely deserve.