Art by Zeke Barbaro / Getty Images When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004, it was his son, Mitesh, who identified the body. Two years later, Mitesh sat through the trial of Hasmukh's killer, Christopher Young. He went on to attend the appeals after Young's conviction. All through the process he had no doubt what he wanted for his father's murderer. 'I'd been an advocate for the death penalty for as long as I could remember,' Patel said. 'And from the day he killed my dad, I wanted to make sure that Chris died.

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