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US Supreme Court rejects executions for child rape

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Louisiana law struck down...


The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the death penalty should not apply to a man convicted of raping a child, saying that capital punishment only applies to murderers.

"The Eighth Amendment (of the US Constitution) bars Louisiana from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death," said the justices in a 5-4 decision.
 

Samirol

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I'm against the death penalty in all cases, so I don't really see a problem with this.
 

Silver

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Jul 20, 2002
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Conversation overheard today in a New Orleans Cathedral:

"So we can keep ****ing altar boys? We don't have to start killing them as well to keep them quiet?"

"That's correct."

"What a relief. God prohibits murder, after all."
 

BurlyShirley

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good ruling imo
Yeah, a great ruling. Because grown people who rape little children have some place in society. It would be a shame to remove such wonderful people from the face of the earth.
Personally, Id rather child rapists be executed than any other type of criminal. Except maybe retard child rapists.
 

Samirol

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Yeah, a great ruling. Because grown people who rape little children have some place in society. It would be a shame to remove such wonderful people from the face of the earth.
Personally, Id rather child rapists be executed than any other type of criminal. Except maybe retard child rapists.
Their place in society is in a jail cell rotting away until the end of their life. Also, false convictions happen.
 
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stevew

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Their place in society is in a jail cell rotting away until the end of their life. .
Or send them to a compound in Texas where they can find god and that type of behavior is encouraged.
 

kidwoo

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I was thinking more along the lines of "Personal Justice", but it depends on what side of the issue you choose to stand on, I guess.
No I knew exactly what you meant.


Just do me a favor. If you git'up a posse, wear a wide brimmed had and don't shave for a few days. Snarl a lot and make some macho one-liners. Actually ONLY speak in macho one-liners. I think it would greatly enhance the justice.
 

jimmydean

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Just do me a favor. If you git'up a posse, wear a wide brimmed had and don't shave for a few days. Snarl a lot and make some macho one-liners. Actually ONLY speak in macho one-liners. I think it would greatly enhance the justice.
You have to smoke those skinny cigars, too.
 

pnj

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Their place in society is in a jail cell rotting away until the end of their life. Also, false convictions happen.
why should someone like john wayne gacy be kept alive? he's 110% guilty.
 

Samirol

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That's sort of the point, isn't it?
I don't really understand why people can be for a death penalty when the death penalty doesn't reduce violent crime, beyond creating a feeling of "**** YEAH HE GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM"

being a pedophile in prison is a punishment worse than death, inmates don't treat you so well once they find out what you did
 

Westy

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I don't really understand why people can be for a death penalty when the death penalty doesn't reduce violent crime, beyond creating a feeling of "**** YEAH HE GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM"

being a pedophile in prison is a punishment worse than death, inmates don't treat you so well once they find out what you did
There is a more logical reason why not to use the death penalty in this case. The majority of child rape is done by family members. It is estimated tha the vast majority goes un-reported as the child fears their relative will get into trouble. If the child knows execution is possible reporting is even less likely.
 

MikeD

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But that's not barbaric, eh? And you seem to rather relish the idea of that happening, and people facing punishments 'worse than death.'
 

valve bouncer

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, beyond creating a feeling of "**** YEAH HE GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM"
That's actually the only morally defensible position on the death penalty that I can come up with because at least it's based on honesty.
The idea that it's a deterrent is bizarre.
 

Westy

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That's actually the only morally defensible position on the death penalty that I can come up with because at least it's based on honesty.
The idea that it's a deterrent is bizarre.

I can see the death penalty helping when used as leverage after someone has been caught to get information. But people who are commiting crimes that can send to jail for life or to the chair either unable to understand the results of their actions or never think they are going to get caught.
 

MikeD

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The thing that creeps me out most about the death penalty is that they somehow want to depict it as a "humane," entirely sanitary, modern thing. Taking someone's life is a terrible thing (I'm speaking in terms of magnitude, not in a normative sense) and we should acknowledge it as such.

The gallows and the chopping block don't freak me out. Even the guillotine and the electric chair pretty much self-acknowledge their own function. The hospital-like trappings of the injection apparatus, cold green walls, and the gas chamber of modern executions really do.
 

Samirol

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But that's not barbaric, eh? And you seem to rather relish the idea of that happening, and people facing punishments 'worse than death.'
Well, I'm trying to think from the position of someone that supports the death penalty, they either want them to go to Hell or want them to suffer in some way, and making them live out their life in prison is pretty bad suffering for a pedophile.