Lionel Tate, why are you alive? Why did you even bother taking the plea in order to take the death penalty off the table? You are a worthless waste of oxygen. Perhaps nobody has ever had the heart to tell you this, but you are W-O-R-T-H-L-E-S-S. You've caused nobody anything but heartache by your very existence (to say nothing of your mother's lunacy for saying she's "hopeful" and that she was "relieved by the plea"), and for that reason alone, you should be dead. Take your own life and stop wasting the resources you so blatantly don't give a damn about. you got away with second degree murder the first time because of a legal glitch and then found it in yourself to go buy a gun with that new lease on life, oh yes, i forgot: after running around with an 8 inch knife like the menace you undoubtedly are. You then proceeded to rob a fucking pizza delivery boy. You felt the need to rob a pizza delivery boy yet you had the money to buy a gun? Please take your own life and spare us the wasted ink in the Times.