Taylor-Made,
While it's true that these vicious hate-mongers have been able to live their lives for the last 39 years, it gives the victims' families a sense of closure. I wouldn't dare say that I know what they've gone through, because I can't imagine what it would be like to lose a beloved member of my family to such an atrocity. I do know, however, that there will be comfort in knowing that while it has been delayed, one of the perpetrators of the crime will get exactly what he deserves. Who's to say that if they had been convicted back in 1964 or 1965, that they would have given the sentences they deserved. I can imagine that some all-white jury would have sentenced them to a five-year prison term, and they'd be free living out their lives. One thing we know for sure. Cherry will DIE in prison. Hell, depending on how much interaction he gets with some of the other inmates, he may die there before he completes his first eight months of his sentence!