Murder sentence not long enough

I disagree with the Wednesday Herald editorial saying that justice was served in the homicide of Terilynn Simone Gardner. Law enforcement certainly did an admirable job of investigating and arresting her murderers, but where is the justice in a 27-year sentence? I would think that any parent of a teenage son or daughter who had been kept for days tied to a chair, hit 26 times in the head with a hammer and had their throat slit would not feel justice was served unless the sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole or even execution. Terilynn only got to live 18 years of her life; the brutal killers will be in their late 40s when they are released. Justice? I don’t think so!

Ray Scudder

Lake Stevens