Ah_Yea says:

#15, Green. AAhhh, that’s so sweet. How about you, your wife, and your daughters all hold hands with a few convicted child rapist and sing “Cum Ba Ya”.

sinn fein says:

I may live in the Middle Ages but the barbarian criminals that most you apparently love and respect (more than their child victims) are from the Stone Age.

So, the compassionate punishment…errr…corrective behavior…is to have the child rapists simply tell their victims and families, “Sorry. Shan’t let it happen again. My bad.” CASE DISMISSED!

You mopes are the same idiots who want to talk with terrorists to “better understand why they hate us.”

God Save America from its “well meaning” backstabbers.

Dallas says:

The logical solution is a point system with the below schedule where Death requires at least 100 points.

Murder : 100 (death guaranteed)

Rape of minor 80 (see debit/credit)
-Male rapes male +20
-Male rapes female +10
-Female rapes male -30
-Female rapes female +30
-Difference in age +1 point for each year

The above schedule can be adjusted each 4 years depending on society standards. This should clearly accommodate liberals and fascists. It may have some flaws, but you get the idea.

Is this system yields results, we can suggest other crimes to add to the kill list.
I am a genius!

Mr. Gawd Almighty says:

#3, Dr.

But allow me to ask again after one of your children gets raped. I imagine the death penalty will be perfectly acceptable at that point.

If this happened to my daughter, I would be out there looking to blow the guys brains out. That, however, is why they don’t allow family and friends to sit in judgment. And, that is the difference between vengeance and justice, not the other way around.

So go ahead, accuse my brother and exact your justice on him for a crime he did not commit. Then expect me to come after you for your crime of punishing my brother. So we can have have justice, where the right thing is done, or we can have vengeance and the anarchy that goes with it.

bobbo says:

Its interesting to me how much of the ruling and the discussion is biblically based. Eye for an eye, except in this case there is no eye, so the eye cannot be demanded?

In fact, the death penality is justified as a statement of the values of the society. USA being the only first world country that allows it goes again to our religious roots.

It seems to me that the death penalty can be justified by identifying the “motives” of the criminal. Did he steal a loaf of bread? Bible even says you can’t punish a man if he steals food to feed himself–seems Napoleon missed that caution.

Still–can’t we all kinda understand the natural temptation to kill in the heat of the moment like when the spouse turns off the football channel, or when someone kills a guard to get at the bank’s money? All very understandable.

But what is the common human emotion present when child rape takes place? Innocent child vs predatory human. Sure seems to me that “if” the death penalty can be justified at all (and there are good reasons listed above as to why it isn’t) then common sense would include child rape. Its only the intrusion of bible religion to hold otherwise.

Dr Dodd says:

#35 cc

Thanks for proving my point. Race was tossed into the mix when clearly it is not pertinent to the topic. I guess that there’s no need to go into the veiled slur against the south, but that’s up to you.

#38 Mr GA

All too often a predator is allowed to prey on the innocent time and time again. The predator is getting plenty of justice while the children and their families must continue with much of their lives destroyed forever.

Maybe in the scheme of things a little vengeance is justice for the victims and society as a whole. It’s certainly worth considering.

Zirbert says:

#21, 35 – although I might have worded it a bit differently, the point the two of you made is correct: if the death penalty applies to rapists (of children or otherwise), then the rapist has nothing further to lose by killing their victim.

As far as I can see, that’s an insurmountable obstacle to making rape a capital offense, regardless of one’s overall opinion of the death penalty.

However, I would also like rapists (again, of children or otherwise) made completely ineligible for any sort of protective custody once imprisoned.

-Zirbert

http://zirbert.blogspot.com

bobbo says:

#45–Noel===make the dictionary your friend:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary

Start with murder, then homicide, then law. You can then go advanced with google and look up “due process of law” and the like.

Really!

bobbo says:

#47–Noel==whats up my butt? People who show no respect at all to the english language. Words have meanings and you shouldn’t make up your own to avoid the consequences of 1000’s of years of careful growth.

Execution: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty.

I can’t find the word or concept of “murder” in any definition of execution.

Join us in the real world.

MikeN says:

To think that one of the things Tocqueville admired about America was that they had a death penalty for rape.

Rick Cain says:

They used to occasionally execute people for rape in my state back in the 1920’s. Oddly enough, all of them were black…hmmmmmmm.

Seems if you were white back then, they applied a different, less critical rule of law.

MikeN says:

By the logic of Kennedy’s decision, gay marriage is unconstitutional.

He writes that there is a national consensus against the death penalty for these cases, since 44 states have not passed it. He writes this even while acknowledging that in the last few years some states have passed this penalty for child rape.

So then it’s clear that there is a national consensus against gay marriage, since very few states have passed it. THerefore it should be outlawed.

Cyberrod says:

I can’t think of a better reason to execute someone.