When I first heard the news about Jennifer Hudson and three of her family members getting murdered, I thought “Who’s Jennifer Hudson?” I honestly had no idea about who she was, but I really felt an honest sense of hurt for her. I can’t imagine losing three relatives at the same time out of the blue.

The “person of interest” (see: guilty as hell) is William Balfour. Balfour is was on parole for a 1999 conviction of attempted murder. I wish I knew how much time he actually did because that would piss me off that he was a free man. Regardless of that previous conviction, Balfour was picked up on June 19th for having rock cocaine in his car. (Having never done drugs but watching lots of Cops and Reno 911, I am fairly confident that this is a pretty hardcore drug). Anyway, his parole wasn’t revoked at that time. I thought parole was for good behavior.

My good friend Tim Hutvagner always says people should have fair trials and everything, but let’s be honest, this guy is guilty. 

If Balfour is convicted of murdering Hudson’s relatives, we should create a new type of death penalty for him. Maybe since he also had the attempted murder charge we’ll put him in front of a firing squad and all the shooters miss. Then we’ll sit him down in the electric chair, flip the switch, let him shake for 30 seconds, then get the George Clooney paddles and shock him back to life. When he comes to, make sure he is alert and speaking, then give him switch for good. Maybe that will teach him.

For real though, my prayers go out to Jennifer Hudson’s family.