by Bob Walsh
David Gaut, 54, was by any reasonable definition not a nice man. In 1985 he was convicted of murdering his girlfriends 17 month old rugrat. He got out of the slammer last November after doing 33 years. He somewhat unwisely moved back to his old area, figuring people would let bygones be bygones. He figured wrong.
Three local men are now under arrest for murdering Gaut. I guess they don't like men who torture and kill babies and figured that 33 years in the slammer was insufficient punishment. I wonder how the Brits feel about jury nullification?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Brits don't have to worry about jury nullification in murder cases. In the U.K., capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1965 and completely abolished in 1998.
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