American Horror Story: Though the Heavens May Fall, Let Justice Be Done

Tom Hogan is the District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania. He is seeking the death penalty under Pennsylvania law for the murder of three year-old Scott McMillan, who appears to have succumbed to multiple, repeated, and ultimately murderous acts of physical abuse from the defendants in the case, Jillian Tait, the child's mother, and Gary Fellenbaum, her boyfriend.These acts included beating the toddler with a homemade whip, smashing his head through a wall, and hanging him by his feet while beating him."Though the heavens may fall, justice will be done to these defendants" was Hogan's final statement at press conference yesterday.Capital punishment will likely end in this country as society continues to evolve, as the unalterable risks the death penalty imposes are further exposed, and as notions of 'good' and 'evil' continue to be shot through with the complex realities of mental illness and extenuating circumstances. That isn't necessarily a terrible prospect.Regardless, while a penalty of death is still an option, and assuming that Tait and Fellenbaum are 1) factually guilty of the pre-mediated, torturous murder of this child and 2) legally sane, I wish my brother prosecutor Tom Hogan one thing as this miserable case plays out in a court of law:Success, all the way to the needle.