Death For Child Molesters?

[Doc]

I will disagree with a nod and a wink, Ghostiger.  The death penalty works just fine down here in Texas.  We have a death penalty, and we use it!. (Ron White likes to use that as a punchline.)

South Carolina has it, but seems reluctant to use it.  The Susan Smith case seems an opportunity lost.  Texas' recent failure to bury the lady who killed her five kids, Andrea Yates, lends some weight to your point, however.  Her attorney's "The Devil Made Me Do It" defense should have been laughed out of court.  As Dick Deadeye once opined:"My, it's a queer world."  (Gilbert and Sullivan reference, Pinafore)

60 people were executed in America last year.  59 in 2004.  (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org and DOJ web site)

Over 16,000 were murdered. (FBI) 

Roughly 42,000 died in traffic accidents, 2004, the 2005 stats are apparently still in work. (DoT) About 17,000 of those to impaired drivers, alcohol.

Given those orders of magnitude, the death penalty is hardly the issue when it comes to "death at the hands of someone else."

One could suggest that you are safer on death row than on the open road, however, the numbers don't support that due to the relatively small death row population.

Occhi
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Pump those numbers up a bit and start executing serial rapists.