State Uses Electric chair

While reading the article "State uses electric chair for first time since 1960" I continuesly wondered what would drive a man or human being to kill his four children. In Nashville, Tennessee Daryl Holten, a 45 year old man kill his four young boys and one girl. Holten said he killed his children because his wife wouldn't allow him to see them. He said his plan was to soon after kill his ex-wife and then himself but instead, turned himself soon after committing the crime. Holten, a gulf war veteran said he lined up his children in his uncle's repair shop and shot them with a shot gun. He was given the choice of whether to go in the electric chair or have a lethal injection. For some reason he choose the electric chair and soon after a group of attorneys petitioned it saying it was cruel and unusual punishment. I would have to disagree with this group of attorneys because i think killing four children is pretty well deserved after he himself gave out cruel and unusual punishment. In my personal opinion what i believe matters from this story is the fact that someone could actually kill their own children and then(even though it was deserved) wanted to go in an electric chair. The only reason/excuse his lawyers could come up with is that he may have suffered traumatic experiences from the gulf war but i still don't see how that would make you kill your own children. I cant think of any particular way this relates to any of the stories in class. I think it relates to the world around us in some ways i mean there are alot of weird people like that all over the world and it's really misfortunet that people die every day and its not even close to their fault.