U.S. court bans death penalty for child rape - are we just getting softer?

Question

Prisoners for the most part the undesirable persons who love to contribute to the cancer of society, crime. Why are there more and more of them? Because our laws are ineffective! Why? We are too soft it would seem. Kill someone there is little come back and so many ways to twist the law that unless you are stupid and don't pay your lawyer you can get off and possibly counter sue. There is a statement that when the government kills it risks falling into brutality. But I want to know how allowing a person who may destroy 100 - 1000 - 10,000 lives by sexual perversion, propagating drug abuse etc... is making the world better? Kill one, save 100? Is this not a good strategy? People are buying more weapons for the home because we know the state cannot protect us! Don't you agree?

Answer 1

If anything other than murder has the death penalty, the perpetrator is likely to murder as well to escape detection.

So keep the death penalty for murder only.  It's not liberalism but common sense.

Answer 2

Not softer....just a little more civilised.   The death penalty is morally indefensible....there is no way to correct errors, and MANY errors have been made,     Reparative and restorative justice looks 'softer' but is more effective.

Answer 3

You are preaching to the choir my friend. I have always admired the way that Texas has handled their criminals. h**l,  maybe Shari'a law would be the way to go.

Answer 4

Can we at least send child rapists to countries that do allow the death penalty for rape?

Maybe this would be a way to get Iran and North Korea off our backs...give them Americans they could execute and nobody would care about...

Though I have to admit, Frank's answer is pretty good...

Answer 5

yes we are

Answer 6

yes i do

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Answer 7

The United States has not executed anyone for anything other than murder for over 40 years. It's considered cruel and unusual because the punishment does not fit the crime. Americans are buying and have always bought guns because it's their RIGHT to protect themselves against any threat foreign or domestic.

There are more people in prison here because this state enjoys  putting people in prison for prohibitive laws. (victim less crimes)   If some one rapes a child they should spend the rest of their life in prison. If you disagree then go to some country where they have different laws and a different constitution.

Answer 8

No.

Punishment of death is not deserved for child rape, and frankly, isn't it a much better punishment to send them to rot in prison - to be raped themselves?

Answer 9

There is a problem with your thesis.  The countries of Western Europe, which all completely banned the death penalty, also have much lower rates of violent crime than we do.  So blaming the state of affairs on being "too soft" completely misses the point - if anything, we are too hard.  We are too eager to punish, and we throw people in prison for years for non-violent offenses.

The problem is cultural.  It has almost nothing to do with our laws - our culture is defective and produces excessive criminality.

Answer 10

We are getting softer. These are sad times we live in.

Even more sad is that the supreme court took it upon itself to bypass the will of the citizens of Louisiana. States rights are a thing of the past.

Answer 11

Yes, When a group like NAMBLA is allowed to exist in our country, and when groups like the NAACP back that group.   I don't have a problem with two adults consenting to having physical relations.  I have a problem with LIBERALS that basically tell children they have no rights and their lives mean nothing.  Because if their lives meant something to them they would put a bullet straight into the heads of those sick enough to harm a child.  Instead LIBERALS call them sick and try to rehabilitate them....while the child if still alive goes through life ashamed, broken, and having other psychological issues.  LIBERALS fight for the rights of people that don't deserve them.

Answer 12

Well i could ask you this question.. In countries where the death penalty is used frequently , does it deter crime ?

NO IT DOESN'T..

Answer 13

The US defines child rape in a different way to we do over here.  It also includes consensual s*x with a minor.

I don't support rape and I never will, but the death penalty would be over the top.

Answer 14

I so agree with you.