Fitting penalty for horrific abuse

Woodside: The miscreant who murdered this precious child must be kept far away from women and children (“Li’l angel’s tragic end,” June 24). This is truly an evil, soulless person without an ounce of decency. Look at the rage he showed toward his own defenseless child and her mother. One can only hope he has some very nice cellmates as he rots in prison. In the meantime, I have to wonder where the social workers were when the baby was born, given the dysfunction in the immediate family. Alice Lemos Bronx : Animals like this deserve to suffer the same fate that their victims do. To torture a child this way warrants that the victimizer receive the same exact torture until they die too. Impose an “eye-foreye” law for these cases, or start sterilizing these piles of garbage so they stop bringing innocent children into the world only to abuse and kill them. I hope he gets what’s coming to him in jail and then burns in hell. Enough is enough! Millie Henriquez

Ultimate punishment

Staten Island: Besides putting Shaquan Taylor in jail for beating his baby girl, castrate the S.O.B. so he won’t do it again. Same for anybody else who hurts or kills a baby. Glenn Matthews

Poor News decision

Bronx: Your decision to feature an old mobster’s release from prison on the Saturday front page was a very bad one. No one knows who that person is anymore, and no one cares. The passing of Nylah Lewis, an innocent 16-month old beaten to death by her father on Father’s Day, should have been the only thing on the cover of The News that day. Alex Hernandez

Higher power needed

Bronx: I’ve seen my own drug-addicted family — grandmother, father, stepmother, aunt and several cousins — all get dragged down by heroin, crack, weed laced with coke or crack, called smoking woolees. Some smoked love boat, aka dust. The result: Two died from AIDS and had a son born with HIV. Another overdosed and died from heroin. Another fell off a roof after smoking love boat. Some are just functioning addicts, stealing to get high. When an addict hears someone OD’d or died, that’s where they all run to, because they know that’s the best on the street at that moment. Dope fiends go through dead addicts’ pockets to see if they have any left of what killed them. You can’t stop or slow this thing down. Never! For the simple reason that people get hooked and want to escape their impoverished lives, even just for a moment. Those with money have nothing better to do with it or their lives. The main reason is the one who has the whole world gripped in his power, and that’s Satan, the devil! You can’t beat him unless you become a servant of the only one who can, Jehovah God.

Lisa Harris

Three-way stupidity

Brooklyn: Christopher Membreno “threw (his) life away for a lie” (June 25)? Reportedly, he was high at the time and doesn’t remember what happened. He knew enough to go to the right apartment where his girlfriend said she was raped. Now, a guy is dead. His real problem — and maybe his friend/accomplice’s, too — is not having any brains and just being plain stupid. That’s why we have the finest police department. All they had to do was to report the crime; now somebody just might do the time. Stupid is as stupid does! Marian McConnell

Animal slavery

Brooklyn: I find it amusing and rather ironic, that Cedric Walker, founder of UniverSoul Circus, a black-owned circus, is concerned with the proposed animal circus ban in New York City (“Please let our circus live,” Op-Ed, June 21). In part he states, “And they should be allowed to continue entertaining the people of New York City.” I question whether the captive animals find it entertaining to perform outlandish acts, completely against their nature. (Elephants standing on their heads, tigers and lions jumping through hoops of flame, ad nauseum.) I wonder what happens to those animals who are not capable of entertaining? Are they kept as pets, sold to roadside zoos or circuses, or to other hell holes? The irony I mention is that it was not so very long ago that blacks, in addition to their manual labor chores, had to “perform” for their “masters” as well, for their entertainment. One form of this was the “battle royal” in which slaves were blindfolded, thrown into an arena, tied together and had to fight; the fighter remaining standing was declared the winner. Heavy betting was the name of the game. (All for entertainment, of course!) Cruelty is cruelty no matter the guise and no matter where it is perpetrated and to whom! By the way, Mr. Walker, Cirque du Soleil is doing quite well. Perhaps you should consider going down that road.

David Weiss

Cuomo cash

Manhattan: If Gov. Cuomo wants to get money to rebuild the MTA, he should stop giving tax breaks to all his developer friends like Extell. David Achelis

Whole Lhota love

North Salem, N.Y.: Joe Lhota is the right choice to start the Herculean job of fixing the trains. He has vast experience and more leadership than the person who usurped his spot in Gracie Mansion. If he could make progress I think he should run for mayor again, and hope more than 23% of the voting public comes out to put him in office and let him fix more problems from the inside. Too bad he was snubbed at the ballot box, because three years of de Blasio is bringing the city back to the ’70s. Michael Casale

No place like home

Brooklyn: To President Trump, the globetrotter: Now that you are back from your successful (your words) world trip — you visited Saudi Arabia, Israel, Belgium and Italy — you get back home and you take off for Wisconsin and Florida. Mr. Trump, you got a lot of mileage out of bashing the city of Chicago and its citizens on the campaign trail. So why don’t you go wake up Mr. Excitement, Ben Carson, and let him be your wingman? Go to Chicago and speak to the people directly, the same way you did to the people of the countries that you visited overseas and the places that you visit here in the states. I don’t want to believe it, but I know why you won’t speak to the people of Chicago. Donald L. Cunningham

Unhealthy trade-off

Bronx: Yaaaay! Your personal/property taxes are going to be reduced. Unfortunately, you won’t live to enjoy it, since you’ll be dead for lack of access to health care. Well, we can’t have everything. Dorothy Garvin

Blame the last guy

Teaneck, N.J.: Every time our current President has a problem, he sees fit to blame our last one. He actually fails to realize one man can do but so much without support. That was the position Obama was in from Day One as the Republicans gave him a hard way to go. Had he gotten some support, he would have accomplished a lot more. He was not the greatest President we ever had, but he was far from the worst. President Trump, with all his billions of dollars, lacks two things he cannot buy: class and integrity. Obama, no matter what they did, he never lost his cool. Thank you. Michael Haskins

Distraction attraction

Bronx: First, it was TV. You were invited to visit a home and their TV was on all day — no conversation. Now it’s cell phones. I just put a notice on my door: “Keep your cell phone in your pocket.”

Yolanda Rojas

A sure thing

Woodmere, L.I.: To the Mighty Quinn: All you gotta do is bet the Yankees the rest of the season and you’ll be a winner for sure.

Mike Schmidt

Yankee slide

Howard Beach: To the idiotic Yankee fan and Voicer Leo Barta: Last I checked, the Yankees were just given their 10th loss in 12 games. Superior? More like garbage to me. Jairo Baez

Meet the Metzvah

DAILY NEWS Manhattan: As an octogenarian sports fan, I’ve been turned off in recent years by drugs, physical abuse, outrageous ticket prices and more. However, Mets relief pitcher Jerry Blevins is a shining light. While a student at Dayton State University, he attended a lecture on the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel and said he was profoundly moved. After his playing days are over, the Wilpons should find a place in the Mets organization for this intelligent, compassionate young man. Stan Zinder