This Tuesday, one of the perpetrators of one of the most horrific killings in Houston history will get what he has coming to him. Hopefully, two of his fellow predators will follow. And unfortunately, two others will escape due to the failure of the US Supreme Court to rule based upon American law and the US Constitution.

Catching up with friends after a family vacation in Florida, Elizabeth Peña beamed as she showed off the stuff she'd bought with her 16th birthday money: a new pager, some new underclothes.

As the summer evening waned, Jennifer Ertman, 14, another Waltrip High School sophomore, checked her Goofy wristwatch and saw that it was pushing midnight. She and Peña would break their curfews if they didn't get home in a hurry.

The girls debated how to get to Peña's Oak Forest home in northwest Houston. One route would take half an hour; a well-known shortcut along the railroad tracks through T.C. Jester Park would save about 10 minutes.

The shorter route instead led the girls into the hands of six teenage gang members who had just finished an initiation ritual. For an hour, the six raped and tortured the girls before strangling them — stomping on their necks for good measure.

Their bodies were discovered four days later, horrifying a city that shrugs off hundreds of homicides each year. The Ertman-Peña case captivated a generation of Houstonians the way the Dean Corll-Elmer Wayne Henley multiple murders had an earlier one.

On Tuesday, the first of Ertman and Peña's killers is set to die by injection.

Sadly, the do-gooders think that it is in the best interest of society to save teh first of these animals from death -- Derrick Sean O'Brien. I wholeheartedly hope they fail in his case, and in those of Peter Anthony Cantu and Jose Medellin. For that matter, I wish that the state of Texas would set execution dates for Raul Villarreal and Efrain Perez, in an effort to overturn the extra-constitutional decision in Roper v. Simmons.

Because as we say down here in Texas -- some folks just need killing.

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