SCOTUS, has just ruled child rapists will not be eligible for the death penalty.

breaking news.

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Good! The death penalty serves as an incentive for these rapists to kill their victims so they can't identify them later. The same thing applies to kidnappers.

maybe we can dispose of stupid posts like these two first



it's their job...justice is blind.

stupid speeches suck

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know them by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against them.
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---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

I doubt that was the court's reasoning and besides a rapist of kids does not want to be caught and put into jail.

even all the sh!theads who suck hate them.

the low lifes take the law into their own hands in society and in prison

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---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

it might be a losing battle. more brilliant legal minds and just regular joes with no clue are chiming in at teh top of the page.

lol

dopiest post of the day?

we'll see.

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-Jonathan Swift

---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

we have one sane and reasonable poster over there so far (I am unqualified).

pretty reasonable and rational post. why bring up other criminals though? is that relevant?

now you went off the reservation. reasonable arguments need to be rational. why belittle the topic with emotions?

JUSTICE IS BLIND

I AM LOOKING AT THE PERCENTAGE OF THE JUDGEMENT THAT WAS OVER TURNED. SO ARE THE BEAN COUNTERS.

RISK MANAGEMENT!

LOL

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---"Thoughts On Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting."

Good decision by the SCOTUS IMHO. The death penalty should only be applied for a crime that results in the death of another human being.

Before I start getting flamed for being a closet liberal or a baby raper, let me say that I have no pity/compassion/sympathy for child molesters. It is a sick, reprehensible, vile act, and child molesters deserve whatever fate befalls them - except for capital punishment.

Why?

Because in this case I really believe in the "slippery slope" argument. Once the state starts executing child molesters, it becomes easier to justify executing other criminals - drug dealers, pimps, child pornographers, politicians who accept bribes, defense contractors who defraud the government, people who cheat on their taxes, and so on.

IMHO, capital punishment should only be used in two specific types of murder cases - murder in the commission of a felony, and murder of a law enforcement officer in the performance of his/her duties. Contract murder (murder for hire) might rise to the level necessary for me to impose capital punishment, but I don't believe any other form of homicide rises to the level necessary for the death penalty to be imposed.

Comments anyone?

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You know, you should talk to people who have actually been affected by such a crime before you come off spouting this kind of nonsense.

A member of my family was brutally raped when she was a child. The brutality of the rape did more than just damage her physically. Her intellectual development essentially stopped after the attack. People now would call her functionally retarded(no I'm not going to use the PC term for it.) This was over 30 years ago. She's older than I am but she can't hold more than a part time job doing simple things, and she can't live on her own. She didn't graduate high school, she's never had a boyfriend or girlfriend, or been in love. She can't even comprehend the concept of love other than the love of a mother/sister or brother.

So I ask you, do you think her life was taken from her? Everything that we take for granted everyday was denied to her by the punks that did this. So you think they should be allowed to live? Any chance she had to live as she was intended to live was taken from her. Essentially her life was taken from her, for she has no chance of ever truly living hers.

You have no idea of the type of evil that it takes to do this to a child. The type of man or woman that can do this, is beyond redemption. There is no extenuating or mitigating circumstance to this type of crime. You don't accidentally rape a child. Society didn't make you do it. You chose to do it. That is the purest kind of evil that I have witnessed, and God help anyone who has ever had to live through it.

Sympathy? I have none... Compassion? Fresh out... You should live through the kind of pain this heinous crime brings, before you sit back and pontificate about it.