Upon Penalty of Life.

I spent the middle of January through the end of March sitting in a room with about 40 people during a long, dense conversation -- and the only real subject of all that talk was whether to kill Christopher DiMeo. He's a triple murderer. He did time for robbing a Best Buy in 2001. Then he tried smash-and-grab burglaries. In late 2004, he found a .40-caliber pistol in a Greenwich, Conn., nightstand and graduated to armed robbery. By February he'd robbed four stores and killed three people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]