…John Evander Couey, a piece of human filth who raped a nine-​​year-​​old girl (prob­a­bly repeat­edly) in 2005, then buried her alive and left her to die and who was later given the cap­i­tal sen­tence for his vile deeds, did us all a favor by drop­ping dead yesterday.

He man­aged to show a lit­tle ini­tia­tive at last, and did it on his own, though he lacked the courage to actu­ally kill himself.