Death penalty for child rapists

The BBQ Pit
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I just read this article http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/17/20541518-father-of-gang-raped-5-year-old-demands-justice-as-case-sparks-protests-across-pakistan and am absolutely FURIOUS.

I think that raping a child is the most heinous crime imaginable and needs to be prosecuted as such. As much as I would like to see rapists suffer and get a taste of their own medicine in jail, I believe that the planet would be better off if they were rotting in the ground.

I believe that if there is UNDENIABLE evidence that a certain person has raped a child, that person needs to be executed immediately.

Who’s with me?

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Not the most heinous crime imaginable, certainly.

Executions should be quick, sure. But while some who live deserve death, many who die deserve live.
Can you give it to them? Don’t be quick to take what you can not give.

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Worse than killing that child?

If you mean you want them to be raped too, that’s barbaric and sick.

Not me, I don’t believe in the death penalty. Life in prison though, probably.

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Okay, Gandalf…

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Of course I want rapists to be raped in prison! How can you believe that wanting a rapist to get a taste of his own medicine is barbaric and sick?

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When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

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So you are for rewarding strong rapists by giving them more victims?

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I don’t think you understand the meaning of “of course.”

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Not because I care about the rapist, but because I believe that a humane and nonviolent justice system is best for society. We’re supposed to be better than the people we’re condemning. A barbaric, violent justice system just promotes more violence.

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Or if we were concerned that that wasn’t equitable, we could hire government rapists to officially carry the sentence.

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“Hi honey, how was work today.”
“Damn it was tough. I had three rapes before lunch and it went downhill from there.”

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Would you cut off the hand of a thief?

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Just to mention the most common argument: if there’s a death penalty for raping a child, then the rapist has no strong reason not to kill his victim afterward. It removes the possible witness, and, what’s the difference? The penalty can’t be any harsher.

If I had a kid, I’d rather the kid be raped, and let live, than raped and killed.

Also, agreement with Blackberry. And Gandalf.

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Persons convicted of heinous crimes should face life without parole, so that they can sit in their miserable little cell and regret what they have done for the rest of their lives. Death is the easy way out.

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During the child molestation panic of the 1980’s it was much bandied about that many child rapist had themselves been raped as children. If that’s true (and I’m not sure it is), then the OP’s desire for retribution comes front-loaded.

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Sorry. I wrote my original post in anger but I doubt my opinion on this issue will change.

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No, just use them as forced labour. I’m opposed to the death penalty for child rapists not out of any sympathy for them but because: 1)since the punishment will be no different whether they kill the child or not, it will give them reason to dispose of a potential witness, 2) the potential to execute an innocent man exists, and 3) the current death penalty system with all its appeals costs more than a life sentence.

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When the US Supreme Court originally ruled the death penalty impermissible for any crime but murder, the one possible exception that it left open was for the rape of a child. It was a few decades later that they returned to the issue and outlawed the death penalty for child rape as well.

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I would be interested in hearing your answer to Loach’s question:

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And what would you consider “UNDENIABLE” evidence? From the child himself? Others have pointed out where that can lead.