Hope you rot in hell!!!!!

[Starchild]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
But if that were my kid I would shoot the bastard and hope I got it right.

This was actually put into practice in the UK a few years ago when one of our tabloids (The News of the World) started running a "name and shame" campaign against paedophiles. They used the Sex Offenders List to get pictures and information about convicted sex offenders and started publishing it. The result?

Near mob anarchy. People took justice into their own hands and made a complete **** up of it. Innocent people were wrongly accused and attacked, property was damaged, and the actual paedophiles ended up breaking off their contact with the Government and went underground.

[curtsibling]

The problem dealing with those kind of dirty offenders is that most of the government
bodies that are charged with stopping the filthy corruption are actually involved too.

[Provost Harrison]

I find this kind of thing nauseating

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Ghengis:
You must agree the Death Penalty doesn't seem to work very well in Mafia games

Works fine in Mafia games. If you kill the Mafia. We just tend to suck at that part.

Originally posted by Agathon
That poor kid. I couldn't believe she was only twelve. What on earth were her folks thinking, letting her go out tarted up like that?

Why does this not suprise me. The same advocates of eliminating the Death Penalty also advocate that the scum who murdered this little girl it the victim.

So, its her fault and her parents's fault for dressing her up to go pick up serial killers. I don't see where you get that from the pictures I saw. I didn't see her as a sex object, she just looked like a normal 12 year old girl to me.

I didn't feel any urge to go rape and murder the little girl when I saw the picture. The psycho that did is a pervert that needs to be eliminated from society.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Oh, and of course, it is a specific deterrant - the person killed can't kill anyone else anymore.

This is, in the end, the one and only justification I can find for the death penalty, but that means it can only be applied very rarely and when there is such a preponderance of evidence as to assure the guilt of the criminal. I'm not talking mere "beyond a reasonable doubt," I'm talking about beyond ANY doubt.

Justice should never, ever be about revenge, it should solely be about protecting society, which is what the entire purpose of our criminal justice system is. We don't lock up theives for revenge, we lock them so they a) won't prey on people while incarcerated and b) will hopefully rehabilitate and become honest members of society.

Now, if have a murderer who is beyond any doubt guilty, and there's every reason to believe he will continue to kill, then perhaps the only solution for society's protection is to remove him from the world. Gacy, Dahmer and Bundy certainly would fit this bill.

So, frankly, I find anyone who approves of the death penalty without caring if it's a deterrant to be rather bloodthirsty and sick. If you only care about revenge, please don't go into criminal law.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Why does this not suprise me. The same advocates of eliminating the Death Penalty also advocate that the scum who murdered this little girl it the victim.

That's not remotely what he said, and you know it:

Originally posted by Agathon
That doesn't excuse the crook at all - he attracts a different kind of blame.

While it my be fun to be dishonest, nobody's fooled by you.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Stepping into liberal shoes.........

So say if someone kills one person we try to rehabilitate them, theory being it was a fluke or accident.

If they kill more than one person then its not fluke, charge up the electric chair, we're frying psycho brains tonight.

Will that work for ya?

[Boris Godunov]

If someone commits first-degree murder, I think they should go to prison for life, period. So if they catch a guy who commits one such murder, to the slammer forever he goes.

If they catch a guy who has commited multiple murders and it there is indication he will kill again, such as a serial killer, then I can see the DP being applied for society's protection.

Either way, no electric chair. Lethal injection done as quietly as possible. We can hopefully avoid having bloodthirsty animals like you cheering for it.

[Sharpe]

The thing that is really sad in this murder is that he was on probation for a crime and on December 30th , a judge REFUSED to give an order to revoke his probation despite the fact that he was violating it. Three years probation for a drug crime despite all of his conviction and having been in jail as recently as 2002 and something like 13 convictions.

Sounds as though a wimpy justice system led directly to this girl's murder - he should have been in jail either for the drug crime or the violation of probation.

From USA Today report:

Smith has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993.

He served 17 months in prison in 2001 and 2002 for heroin possession and prescription drug fraud. Eight days after he got out, he was arrested for cocaine possession and placed on probation for three years. He also got probation for aggravated battery in 1993 and heroin charges in 1999.

A state correction official, Joe Papy, said that a probation officer had asked a judge on Dec. 30 to declare Smith in violation of his probation because he had not paid all his fines and court costs.

Papy said Circuit Judge Harry Rapkin declined to find Smith in violation, which could have returned him to jail. The judge defended his decision Friday, saying the probation officer never sent him the evidence he requested that Smith had willfully refused to pay.

Carlie's family questioned why Smith was allowed to be free.

"In my opinion he should have never been out on the street," Carlie's father said.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Boris Godunov, I actually think your a pro-Death Penalty person there.

The Death Penality is pretty much only handed down to people who are multiple killers or have committed murder in a fashion that shows immense deviancy with the values of society. Like they enjoyed doing it and got a thrill out of it.

I don't think anyone has the electric chair anymore, it was too messy to clean up after the exectutions. With lethal injections you can just zip em up into a carry out bag and toss up into the landfill.

[Theben]

Just Say No to DP. It doesn't deter. Honestly, how many criminals commit crimes expecting to be caught? It also costs a lot more, with real-world consequences to state and local districts and their budgets (with consequences to their law enforcement budget, too).

The main reason I'm against it is that I don't think the State should have the power to execute it's own citizens. It's only one small step from executing criminals to stifling dissent thru state-sanctioned murder. The DNA tests from Illinois only clinched it for me.

DP

[Elok]

There's only one way to answer this question. Somebody PM Asher and ask him if the Death Penalty's what's kept him from garroting Agathon with his mouse cord all these years.

[Tripledoc]

Every Day in America

1 young person under 25 dies from HIV infection.
5 children or youth under 20 commit suicide.
9 children or youth under 20 are homicide victims.
9 children or youth under 20 die from firearms.
34 children and youth under 20 die from accidents.
77 babies die.
157 babies are born at very low birthweight (less than 3 lbs., 4 oz.).
180 children are arrested for violent crimes.
367 children are arrested for drug abuse.
401 babies are born to mothers who had late or no prenatal care.
825 babies are born at low birthweight (less than 5 lbs. 8 oz.).
1,310 babies are born without health insurance.
1,329 babies are born to teen mothers.
2,019 babies are born into poverty.
2,319 babies are born to mothers who are not high school graduates.
2,861 high school students drop out.*
3,585 babies are born to unmarried mothers.
4,248 children are arrested.
7,883 children are reported abused or neglected.
17,297 public school students are suspended.*
* Based on calculations per school day (180 days of seven hours each).
© 2002 Children's Defense Fund

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And the death penalty will help in which exact way?

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood

http://abcnews.go.com/

here front page

When I clicked on that link I got a story about the baby who died after an operation to remove her second head. I presume that was not the story you were talking about? If it was, then let me asure you that the child had very little chance of survivng with a second useless head attached to its skull. At least the doctor gave her a chance.

You're probably talking about the mechanic who abducted an 11 year old girl right in front of a surveillance camera. I doubt the jury will have mercy upon him. I can't think of any acceptible extenuating circumstances.

[Provost Harrison]

It is a sickening thing to happen, and not as uncommon as we would like them to be. I just can't find any kind of empathy or understanding with this people who would hurt children. I do have a very strong paternal streak which makes it hard to be distant on this issue...but this is the whole thing with sociopathy and ability to relate or comprehend other people and their feelings.