Leonard Pitts: This is not how justice is supposed to work
So it looks like Charles Rhines is going to be executed — and it’s probably because he’s gay.Well, not only that. There’s also the matter of his committing an especially heinous murder in 1992. Rhines, caught burglarizing a doughnut shop in Rapid City, South Dakota by an employee named Donnivan Schaeffer, stabbed the 22-year-old in the abdomen and back. Then, as Schaeffer pleaded for his life, Rhines thrust the blade into the base of his skull.Point being that this guy is
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