Richard Hollerman

Recently a Colorado murder trial occurred that tell us something about the bizarre sense of values that many in this country have. For example, at the recent trial, one defendant had this plea for a friend or family member: “Please, your honor, I’m pleading with you. . . . Lock this animal away to the depths of hell.”

On the one hand, we know that murder is wrong. Killing is evil and must be punished. We know this through Genesis 9 and also Acts 25:11 that the death penalty must be imposed. The latter passage has Paul saying: “If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die.” Thus, from such passages as this, we know that this murderer must die and should die soon.

On the other hand, sodomy (homosexuality) is wrong and those involved in this must also die for sodomy is wrong and those who are involved in this sin should die. See especially such passages as Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. Many New Testament passages would say that homosexuality or sodomy is sinful (see Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

But here we have a unique case. On the one hand, we have a murderer who deserves to die for he killed many people. On the other hand, the ones he killed and others with them also deserve to die for they were sodomites/homosexuals! (And at least some of them are in Hades and the remaining ones are also sinful.)

Earlier this year, the mass “shooter” was sentenced but they said of him, “Lock This Animal Away to the Depths of Hell.” This was said of the “mass shooter” who killed five people at a “LGBTQ” (homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexual, queer) club. Instead of the death penalty (since it was Colorado and now this state wrongly forbids the death penalty), the murderer was sentenced to life in prison. So says Todd Betzold. The writer. It was published on June 28, 2023.

The mass shooter who used an AR-style rifle to terrorize a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub – killing five people and injuring 19 others – pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder, RadarOnline.com has learned.

We seem to have a real perplexity here. The murderer deserves to die (but Colorado won’t allow this) and the sodomites who died are gone and those alive also deserve to die.

On June 26, Judge Michael McHenry sentenced 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich to five consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 2022 massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs, as Front Page Detectives reported.

In addition, McHenry sentenced Aldrich to 2,208 years in prison for the attempted murder charges.

He also received a four-year sentence for bias-motivated charges, the equivalent of hate-crime charges in other states, CNN reported.

In a news conference after the sentencing, Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen said, “That is the longest sentence ever achieved in the Fourth Judicial District and the second, to my knowledge, longest sentence ever achieved in the state of Colorado, second only to the sentence achieved in the Aurora theater shooting case.”

During the victim’s impact statements at sentencing, CNN reported that Cheryl Norton, whose daughter Ashtin Gamblin was shot nine times but survived, said, “Please your honor, I’m pleading with you: Lock this animal away to the depths of hell.”

In an audio recording played in court, the family of shooting victim Derrick Rump said, “We have no forgiveness in our heart for him. We hope karma comes back around to him as hard as it can and as often as it can. We hope he never has another day of peace.”

We know that “Karma” is false and this Hindu concept will be wrong. Also, we know that this lack of forgiveness is also wrong. There is so much wrong about all of this!

Colorado abolished the death penalty in 2022, so prosecutors could not seek the penalty against Aldrich.

However, officials stated a federal investigation has been opened into the mass shooting and remains ongoing. Capital punishment remains legal for federal cases, so the death penalty could be attached to a possible federal case against Aldrich.

“I hope they do press charges and I hope we get the death penalty out of this,” said Jeff Aston, the father of shooting victim Daniel Aston.

Aston said he is still feeling “hollow” after the sentencing hearing, adding, “It’s not enough closure. Not even close.”

There is so much wrong here. We realize that the American public, including the deranged Colorado judge, the Colorado people, the Colorado sodomites, and the Colorado murder would be wrong and they serve much more.

What can be done? What is right about this? All of this death will not bring back people from the grave. Some have died and are now in anguish is Hades. The murder will be cast away in prison for his life. The judge will surely face God in judgment, if he doesn’t repent! And the American public will not be satisfied.

What can be done? Probably many of you who read these words will not be satisfied yourself. If you are a Christian, this is one matter. But if you are a typical reader surely you will judge this wrongly. What would God, the Ultimate Judge, say about all of this? (Please read the Bible passages we have listed above.)