“A tragedy, yes,” Thorne muttered to his associate prosecutors, “but the boy was always trouble. “A life of shame averted, perhaps,” he reasoned, his hand unconsciously stroking the gold Rolex his wife had given him. Cox demanding the death penalty for the politicians responsible for the bloody piles of women and babies in the Holy Land. You won’t hear Cox complaining that the man responsible for killing 11 Venezuelan boatmen should be brought to justice and hanged. You won’t find Cox demanding the ultimate punishment in the apparently politically motivated killings of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.