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Vicki

Do you think child rape offenders should be executed?

I know this will be a controversial thread, yet again, but I did it anyway.

Personally, I don't think they should be executed, I think they should be castrated! If they can't keep it in their pants, cut that sucker off! I feel this way about all rapists, whether it's a child, or an adult.

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pkster8235

Yeah, I agree. I have been against capital punishment for a variety of reasons, but I always thought rapists and child molesters should be tortured and castrated with their genitals then inserted into somewhere very painful without lubrication.

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WeedGod

Does anyone remember the McMartin preschool case? A lot of innocent people would have been executed if that was the case. I say "Take a life when a life has been taken".

racin36er

it could, however, be argued that raping a child is like taking a life -- the emotional damage done to that child would radiate for the rest of his/her life, and would ruin a great deal of things for that child. Life would be horrible.

I agree with the "a life for a life," but i also firmly believe raping a child is taking a life, the damage is irreversible and will last for the entire duration of that childs life.

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Trocisp

I'm against capital punishment, period. Not because it's an unfair punishment, but because it's far too final.

You can never be 100% certain that someone committed a certain crime. There can be nearly certain evidence (such a finger prints), and a year later more evidence emerges (such as DNA) and you find out that they didn't commit the crime they were accused of... what do you do then?

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Bhikku

I have several issues with the death penalty, but I don't entirely disapprove of it. I don't think people should have to pay millions in taxes to give people in prison for life cable TV and all the comforts of home, especially when their only contribution to society was to f*ck it up.

I have a religious conflict with killing people for any reason, but I think murderers, rapists, and people who participate in torture are unreformable. Those who abuse children (either physically or sexually) are just as bad. They all have a high incidence of repeat offenses, and it's nothing like being a repeat shoplifter, or a repeat drug dealer.

If someone is a compulsive shoplifter, a couple more shirts go missing. If someone is a compulsive pedophile, they have the power to ruin childrens' lives and perpetuate a cycle of sexual violence which extends much further than themselves.

A child who is molested has a higher chance of growing up to commit violent crimes or commit sexual abuse. Many serial killers and criminal psychotics have a history of child abuse.

I say kill them. I'd add, "And decrease the surplus population," but that's a little too cynical even for me.

If I found out that someone had sexually abused one of my younger relatives, I would have to kill them myself, since it's not something you can depend on the justice system to take care of. Obviously, since rapists and murderers are back walking the streets long before recreational drug users and cultivators are.

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Dark

It's interesting you bring this up today.
I just had a very real discussion about incidents that happened to family members many years ago, that I had no idea about. Molestation was obviously the conversation, but let's just keep it at that. I sat pondering what you can really do to someone like this?

I for one am completely against the death penalty. An eye for an eye is just ludicrous, and no one should be tortured or killed for any crime committed. Hypocrisy in it's purest form I believe...
If you want to think at it from another angle, why give them the pleasure of dying an early death? Let him suffer in his shithole of a cell. Even most criminals have morals, and if they know that someone molests kids he'll be in hell the rest of his days I'm sure. I'm not saying that's right either, but it is the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

But no capital punishment, even for something so severe. It churns my stomach to think about what goes through a fucking perverts mind but I don't resort to ending his life.


and beside the fact, if even ONE person is wrongly accused, you have innocent blood on your hands. Yet they turn it into a numbers game and say that the system works good enough. Well I'm sorry, but when dealing with human beings, our lives do not turn into a numbers game.

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macphearsome

I think child rapists are scumbags and should be locked up for 25 years at least. (sorry, is my Canadian showing?)

I'm opposed to the death penalty, not for any philisophical reason, but because I don't find the thought of state-sanctioned death very comforting.

The principles of justice in our society explicitly invoke the "eye for an eye," vengeance-based punishment, and I don't have a problem with that. The argument "you can't be 100% sure" never struck me as particularly convincing, because we punish people different ways all the time and we've got this system mostly figured out by now. If there really is an issue of punishing innocent people, it should be an issue, with-or-without capital punishment. Whether you put an innocent person in jail for 50 years or kill 'em, it's a shitty deal either way... we should be doing our best to make sure that doesn't happen.

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RookieSmoker

I voted the wrong way, I put no but meant yes. I think anyone that rapes a child should be in Jail for life. Someone hear said a life for a life, well even though the child will be scarred for life, they still have the chance to live life and though this will effect most lives of child victims, there are few that will get passed it. I don't like the death penalty in most cases. If there is any doubt in the evidence that the person didn't do the crime, and I mean ANY doubt, I'm against the death penalty. If there was a terrible act of violence committed with a bunch of witnesses that can identify the defendant, I'm all for the death penalty, but for instance in the Stanley Williams case where there was still some doubt, though a small amount, there was still doubt present, I was against his sentence.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. I put yes, but meant no.

SpiralArchitect

No way, lock em up.

Child rapist/molesters absolutely get it the worst in prison. Don't kill them -- like Dark said, don't give them the pleasure of an early death.

Let them rot in their cell till their own demise ; all the while receiving brutal sodomy from Bubba and the Black Snake Gang. It may not be nice, but that is justice at it's finest.

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