Bayou Reacts To Luong’s Sentencing

Bayou La Batre Bridge Tragedy Is there even a punishment that fits the crime?

by Jessica Taloney

Published: Fri, March 20, 2009 - 4:45 pm CST

Even before a sentence was handed down in the Lam Luong capital murder trial, Russell Collier had his own idea of what should happen to the man accused of tossing his four young children off the Dauphin Island Bridge.

"You can take him and hang him from the bridge and let the water rise and go out on him and give him a dose of what it's like to drown," says Collier, who watched last year as crews spent two full weeks searching for the four small bodies.

Steve Sprinkle, whose son is the duck hunter who found the first of the bodies, doesn't have much more sympathy.

"If it was up to me I'd put him in a 4x6 cell with those four pictures up on the wall and that's the way he'd stay until his heart quit beating, however long that takes," says Sprinkle.

It took a Mobile County jury just one hour to sentence Luong to death Friday.

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FastFred Says:

Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:20 pm

He deserves just what he is getting,the only problem I have with this,is that we will make him comfy for many years while he goes through one appeal after the other.So the tax payers will have to feed this waste of a human for about thirty yrs.This is BS,this is the sentence and it should be carried out immediately.

southernpride7 Says:

Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm

And the death sentence is what he should get. But of course he will sit in prison for god knows how long. 3 meals a day, cable tv, time outside. Ha and we pay for that. There are people out there that don’t even get 3 meals a day. Heck sometimes I don’t eat 3 meals a day. But I am sure they will figure some way for him to sit and be comfy for awhile. Just get on with it. He was sentenced to death so take him and get it over with. That’s what he asked for anyways.