Who would take a child’s purse?

Who would take a child’s purse?

While shopping with my three grandchildren Nov. 13 at the Eastwood Mall, my 9-year-old granddaughter lost a small change purse by the photo booth in the Penney Concourse.

She had stopped to fix her shoe and laid it on the floor, forgetting to pick it up. It wasn’t more than 10 minutes when she realized she had forgotten it. We went back, but to no avail, it was gone.

She had worked hard in school for the rewards that were in the purse. We checked with security and customer service, but no one had turned it in.

Shame on the person — child, teen or adult — who found the purse and did not turn it in. You forgot one of God’s commandments, “Thou shall not steal,” which is what you did by keeping the purse.

Rachel Wood, North Jackson

Child killers give up their rights

The part of the Ohio Consti- tution that protects convicts is appalling to me.

After reading the Dec. 3 article “Execution survivor stays on death row,” I was irate to learn that a convicted rapist and murderer, having had a 14-year-old girl suffer gruesomely at his hands, when facing death himself would have the audacity, to whine about being stuck with the needles at least 18 times so intense that he cried and screamed. So what? Did this Romel Broom at all consider or care about the cries and screams of this child?

I feel no sympathy for this person and do not care if it took the execution team all day and 30 attempts. Why should he be given what he did not afford this young, innocent girl: a second chance, a right to live. Please do not mention his constitutional rights; those rights should be buried like the girl he put in ground.

Jo Ann Collier, Columbiana