Well, fact is, you are correct, to a point. BUT, there is also the fact that he committed these heinous crimes against dogs. Humans have laws to protect them from such atrocities... fellow humans who will stand up for them...

I realize that the subjugation of humans by their fellow man is ghastly, but, when it is perpetrated against an anmimal that has no entrencehed rights and is essentailly defenseless in any way, it is ALMOST more sickening and unforgivable.