Lam Luong Sentenced to Death

Lam Luong has been sentenced to death for killing his four children by throwing them off a bridge.

MOBILE, Ala. -- Lam Luong was sentenced to death today for throwing his four children from the Dauphin Island bridge one year ago.

Luong, 38, turned to his wife Kieu Phan in court this morning and apologized in Vietnamese, his voice cracking.

"I apologize to my wife," the court-appointed translator said for the record after Luong spoke.

Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick ordered that Luong be shown photographs of the four children every day on death row.

Luong threw Ryan Phan, 3; Hannah Luong, 2; Lindsey Luong, 1; and Danny Luong, 4 months, off the Dauphin Island bridge and into the coastal waters of Alabama on Jan. 7, 2008.

It's an interesting order from the judge. Every day Luong spends on death row, he must be shown photographs of the children he murdered.

However, I don't think looking at pictures of his dead children will have any impact on Luong.

If one is capable of tossing one's own kids off a bridge to their deaths, that individual has no conscience and is likely beyond redemption.

What he did was so horrific. If he can take his four little children in his arms and then drop them off a bridge to drown, I think he lacks the goodness in his soul that would be needed for the photos to affect him.