Free Jerome Ersland

Published: September 9, 2012 Comment on this article

Free Jerome Ersland

Regarding “Robber of Ersland's pharmacy completes his time in custody” (News, Sept. 4): We're releasing a convicted murderer who with his companion sought to rob a pharmacist of cash and drugs. At the same time, the pharmacist who stopped the two robbers from completing the crime is languishing in jail because he shot and killed the second robber. Of course the pharmacist was scared. He lost it, his adrenaline pumping and his judgment impaired at the moment. He may have seen a muscle spasm in the downed robber and thought he and his co-workers were still at risk.

photo - SENTENCE / SENTENCING: Pharmacist Jerome Ersland glances at the visitors in the courtroom before he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Monday, July 11, 2011. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman ORG XMIT: KOD

SENTENCE / SENTENCING: Pharmacist Jerome Ersland glances at the visitors in the courtroom before he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole at the Oklahoma County Courthouse in Oklahoma City, Monday, July 11, 2011. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman ORG XMIT: KOD

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If you've never confronted a burglar in your home or business and known the terror and shock of such a time, you don't have the right to judge the pharmacist. Let Ersland go free. Let justice prevail.

Carol Joy Bird, Edmond