It was a very acute racial moment. The trial about a black man killing a white woman exacerbated the anger of the angry white man and made the black community feel like they had to defend themselves.

I can't believe that a man can walk in and confess to killing a child and walk back out on the streets and be free to live his life when my son is dead.

While he was a great man and did more for this continent in terms of journalism than anybody in history, like anyone he had flaws.

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

Most serial killers — and I do believe this was a serial-killing crime — are anger retaliatory killers. They tend to do crimes that are much quicker. But this crime is what we call a sexually sadistic serial killer who very much enjoys the entire process of the torture and the murder.

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's fle