Supreme Court Outlaws Death Penalty For Child Rape
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on Wednesday derailed the efforts of nearly a dozen states supporting the right to kill those convicted of raping a child and said execution was confined to attacks that take a life and to other crimes including treason and espionage.
In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote “the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,” despite the horrendous nature of the crime.
But what if it were your child? Would you feel the same?
One evil deed does not excuse another. Just put them somewhere where they'll never have access to children again. Doesn't even need to be uncomfortable.
That's a valid point. We could simply remove them from society so they couldn't hurt any more children. So would you make a life sentence mandatory?
Then again, I have to ask, would your opinion about them not even having to be "uncomfortable" change if they had raped your four year old daughter?
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I'd rather pay for their execution, than pay for a lifetime of room and board. The child will have to live with the memory their entire life. Who knows the kind of psychological problems he/she will have. Can you imagine living with that kind of memory? Would you be able to trust another man ever again? I know I would find it really hard to.
This is a debate that my wife and I just had. “the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,†is a naive thing to say. There are different extremes to the crime and there are some forms of rape and acts within the crime that make the crime proportional.
The desire to HURT the criminal has no place in true justice. Just put the dangerous ones away, so the decent folk can get on with their lives.
People want to _cure_ them, but you'd have to be a very clever psychologist to be sure the cure had taken.
Well, you're applying a definition to justice that not everyone agrees with. The word "justice" simply means (in this case) the "administering of deserved punishment" (dictionary.com).
But what is the "deserved" punishment? That is the true question. You say that someone who rapes and brutalizes your child does not deserve to face death for that crime. You are entitled to that opinion, of course.
Many others, however, feel that someone who would rape a child certainly deserves no less than to lose their life because they have, essentially, taken the life of the child by taking all hope of a normal childhood and probably a normal life behind childhood (not to mention the physical abuse involved).
Those people would say that it is, in fact, justice that demands the criminal face death for such an action.
What surprised me is that espionage is considered more heinous and deserving of capital punishment than the rape of a child! I'm all for American pride, but we should direct more of that pride towards our children. I agree with Jason that raping a child is almost if not equal to taking the life of that child. That child will never ever be the same. I used to work in a special school where children went through severe trauma, including being molested by their own parents. It's a painful thing to watch a child go through that experience, and worse yet to see them molest another child…
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