I wasn’t aware they’d captured the suspected Idaho murderer. However, I was greeted with this news when I was trying to get an innocent black coffee yesterday. One of the baristas, who I should note has a cognitive disability, let me know the news. She went on to make it quite clear to me that she wished she could join that jury. “To put him to death”, she said nonchalantly. I’m not even sure I reacted, just tried to go along sipping my slightly over-roasted coffee while pretending to not have just interacted with someone out for blood. I mean, it’s 8 am, I usually reserve that sort of ire for the late evenings at best.
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. We’re all human. We all have our own thoughts and opinions. Just because she has a cognitive disability doesn’t mean she doesn’t want some justice in the world. From now on, I’ll just be seeing her as coffee and justice.