Death For Child Molesters?

[Doc]

To whom are they "monsters?"  (Yeah, okay, don't answer that, its rhetorical).  You've pronounced your judgement, based on your moral convictions.  Upon whose moral convictions does the law reside?  I don't have an answer to that, but I find a definition similar to that used by the Supreme Court to identify pornography (I'll know it when I see it) to be insufficient in determining who deserves death.

I started out in the mood to get into a line drawing discussion but I couldn't stick carry it out.  Simply put, my problem is who would do the line drawing about what offenses deserve death.  Yeah, sure, a jury of my peers.  I wouldn't trust em as far as they could throw me.
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In short, anybody that repeats the offense of permanately screwing up the life of another human being.

In the cases of child rape, those kids will never be normal. There is a good chance of them becoming child rapists themselves. (Don't go there, whole different can of worms) Their life, growing up and trying to be normal, get married, and do all the things that other human beings tend to do, will be forever tainted because of somebody's sexual disfunction. Now, it's bad enough when it is done once, but to allow it to keep happening repeatedly is just plain wrong.

If they do it once, and never do it again, and actually get help for condition, and follow through with their treatment program, and never become a threat again, hey, that's a storybook ending. It can happen. That is the ending that most people would like to see. And for these folk, more power to them. Let them live and try to make up for their mistake. But never trust them and always be watchful.

For the guys that do it for the second or third time... These guys are like mass murderers. Their compulsion can not be curbed. The only humane thing to do for them, and for everybody else around them, is to terminate them. You don't let mass murderers like Ted Bundy go free do you? Why is that? Anybody want to answer that question? You don't keep them alive in prison very long either. Why do you think that is? Do you think they will ever be rehabilitated? Do you think after 50 years, you might appeal somehow to their reason and make them feel a twinge of guilt? Would you coddle and pity them for their affliction and cry them a river? Hell no. You gas them and go on living.

The law does not treat serial child rapists as mass murderers though. They coddle the sick bastards, and they are the victim. They had a bad childhood. They have a mental illness. Oh, they can't help themselves, and prison is bad for them, so they should be put in a mental hospital for a few months till they are "stable" and then released. They load them up on Prozac or Lithium or Zyprexa and send them home. Or whatever the hell it is they give them. And the cycle continues.

Sickens me.