What do you think about the Supreme Court's ruling that the death penalty for child rapists is excessive?

Question

Personally, I think that the death penalty is not excessive enough. The child rapist should be put to death and the rapist's family should pay financial retrobution and pay for the treatment and counseling of the victem.

Answer 1

I answered a similar question and got thumbs down because I said castrate them 1st.



They never get a long enough sentence, and why should I have to pay with my tax dollars for him to spend any time in jail with a roof over his head and food to eat.

When, he gets out, what do you think he is going to do?

Statistics show they end up back in jail for commiting the same crime. Why should another child suffer?



Kill the bastard.

Answer 2

Child abusers, molesters, rapists are far beyond morally depraved. Indescribable.

Is this not like or worse than murder? Are the lives of these kids not snuffed out, too?



The Supreme Court has made a huge & very sad mistake today. It sickens me. I cannot fathom how they came to this conclusion.

I never felt like the death penalty was ENOUGH punishment, even. A little torture before hand maybe...



Now we get to pay for their life in prison (if they even get life, doubt it). I'd much rather kill off the criminal & put our tax dollars towards the victim's treatment.



All we can hope for now is that the freaks' cell-mates up the anti on their own form of punishment for those types, & give it to 'em good, rough & relentlessly.



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no, I don't think the pervs, er, perps family should be held accountable unless they had something to do with it...& that would include knowing about it.

Answer 3

The death penalty for raping but not killing a child carries unexpected problems and risks. We should think about the children who will have to live with the possibility that, as a result of his reporting the abuse, their fathers, uncles or other family member could face execution – a heavy load for any child, on top of what he has already gone through. We should also be concerned that a rapist may decide to kill his victim to get rid of the key eyewitness.



We should also think about the fact that many victims of rape, including adults, have misidentified their attackers. (For examples, check out www.innocenceproject.org.) and about the documented cases where children were manipulated into saying they were abused even though no abuse took place.

Answer 4

The family of the rapist has nothing to do with anything. That could be anyone's uncle or something, as horrendous as that is. The rapist though should have his testicles ripped off with plyers. Then his hands should be put into a deep fryer.



Anyone that SICK and DEMENTED to actually be not only turned on by a child, but then to rape it , deserves NO LIFE. Plain and simple. Who gives a crap if the person is mental or not. See if that gives the victim any solace. I doubt it.

Answer 5

For someone who has taken the innocence of a child because they are sick. I don't think they should get the death penalty as we know it. Lethal Injection,electric chair, and gas chamber. No that will cost the tax payers to much money. Cut his nuts off, put him on a horse and hang him from the nearest tree. I feel this way because of what some slim bag did to my grand daughter at the age of three who is still going through therapy to deal with it, and all the creep got was 20 years, which means he'll be out in 10. My grand baby has a lifetime to deal with it.

Answer 6

I even tend to think of of rape-particularly the rape of a toddler as greater undesirable then homicide (except torture or severe discomfort is in contact interior the technique of the dying). i'm additionally a liberal who does not oftentimes have confidence interior the dying penalty. That reported, the rape of a toddler is unquestionably one among the circumstances the place i might experience greater gentle making use of the dying penalty as punishment. i presumed the remark approximately it no longer being proportional to raping an harmless toddler strengthen into fairly erroneous. on the different hand, rapists-particularly people who attack babies- are oftentimes despised via something of the penitentiary community. it incredibly is humorous how no rely what crimes a individual has committed themselves, they nevertheless locate ethical opposition to the crimes of others. toddler rapists have a terrible time in penitentiary. Many are constantly crushed or perhaps raped via their fellow inmates. i don't experience the least bit undesirable for them. it relatively is my desire that as quickly as a toddler rapist gets caught and put in reformatory they go through as much as humanly available for something of their lives. that's what they have accomplished to a toddler-or many babies. they have probable destroyed a lot of those toddler's lives. I easily think of that any convicted toddler rapist might desire to receive an important existence sentence devoid of parole in a maximum protection penitentiary packed with the main violent criminals alive. truthfully, on an analogous time as a liberal-i won't have the ability to locate it in my coronary heart to care in the event that they do receive the dying penalty which i'm oftentimes destructive to. If it saves different babies from having to go through the horrors that they are probable to inflict then it form of sounds like a lifelike commerce.

Answer 7

I'm glad to say Obama is against it and I'm a Republican! I like Barack though and he seems like a sincere man. I don't agree with his politics since he's a Democrat, but he seems to be a good person.



If I didn't already, this would make me like him! He is definitely against child rape.



It has to be brave for him to hold this opinion considering he's deviating from much of his own liberal base (just like John McCain is brave for holding his own opnion and taking the lumps from many conservatives). See this news just from today about the Supreme Court and Barack Obama's reaction:



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_el_pr/obama_child_rape_case_9



I personally think the rape of children (the Supreme Court cases were talking about two real cases with children under the age of 10!) is an inexcusable, horrible, completely unacceptable act.

Answer 8

I am disappointed. That is a perfect punishment for child rapists. If it was a slam dunk proof they are guilty then let them fry, and not rot in prison at the taxpayers expense.

Answer 9

I think that the death penalty is too humane for these "people" it'd be more appropriate for the family of the kid they raped to be given a variety of torture devices and be put in a small room with the sicko for as long as it took to rip him limb from limb.

Answer 10

Well, the rapist's family can't really help it.

But other than that I totally agree.

If you hurt someone like that it isn't cruel and unusual punishment.

What is, however, is knowing that the person who did that to you is still alive.

Answer 11

These type of people have a disease that cannot be cured. They might as well be done off with.

Answer 12

I'm against the death penalty, period.