Sometimes maybe it is? No, there are times when violence IS the answer, and this case is one of them. The perpetrator who did this should be executed, plain and simple. Imagine if that were your mother laying there in a pool of her own blood, would you say "sometimes maybe it is?" This guy should be hung or beheaded, and if it were up to me he would be. Forget life in prison, public execution is the wise course of action. You don't negotiate or rehabilitate psychopaths.....you destroy them. Any man that kills a middle aged woman in this way doesn't deserve to see the sun rise and fall.