Does anyone really have a problem with the death penalty for all sex offenders?

Question

Besides the sex offenders, i mean. Why are these people ever let out of jail? Most of the time, they just commit another crime?

And who cares if they are rehabilitated? One less ex-con in this world is bad enough already. We kill millions of babies every year, why not a few criminals?

--One more thing. This would not, of course, be imposed on, say, a 20 y/o having consentual sex with a 16 y/o. That should still be penalized, but not with the death penalty. Even I know that would be going too far!

Answer 1

The death penalty is barbaric for ANY offence. It's revenge, not justice. And it assumes our legal system is infalible, which it clearly is not. Dozens of people have been exhonorated after being sentenced to death, and a handful have even been exhonorated after they were executed. That means that our legal system has killed innocent people by way of the death penalty. Prison sentences can be reversed in light of new evidence. Death cannot.

Also, the death penalty is imposed in a disproportionatedly high rates on people from a socioeconomically disadvanted background. A good lawyer can usually make a deal or create enough doubt to prevent their client being sentenced to death. Good lawyers are expensive. Although there are exceptions, the majority of public defenders are overworked, underpaid, and not particularly competent. A court in Texas ruled that a defendent's right to counsel does not require that said counsel be awake during the trial. That defendent was sentenced to death, despite the fact that his public defender slept through significant portions of the trial.

The death penalty is also expensive. It actually costs more to kill someone than to keep them in prison for life. Death penalty cases are appealed far more than non-capital cases, and appeals are expensive for the state. That, combined with the cost of the execution itself, and the time the defendent is kept in prison, ends up being, on average, more than the cost to keep a criminal in prison for life.

Life in prison is just as effective at getting a criminal off the street, and it can be reversed if the convicted defendent is subsequently proven innocent. Like it or not, or legal system absolutely does lock up innocent people. And when capital punishment is used, wrongfully imposed punishments are made irreversible. The death penalty has been used to kill innocent people in the past, so anyone who fights for the death penalty has innocent blood on their hands.

The death penalty is ALWAYS immoral, sex offenders or not.

Also, if you're going for irreversible and immoral punishments for sex offenders, I think that castration (preferably with a blunt razor) is preferable to death. But that still runs into the problem of it being irreversible.

Answer 2

There are just too many variable as pointed out by other members.
Also, what about female sex offenders? You can't castrate them.
I think that as a society we will have to decide if we want to punish or rehabilitate. If rehabilitation is unsuccessful as in many cases of sex offenders, why should execution be the only alternative?

Answer 3

These people are sick and will never change! I say the death penalty would be suitable not only for the sex offenders but alot of other crimes as well!! If we were as a country to punish people for the crimes they commit in a more harsh way then people would not commit these crimes as often!! Going to a secured housing facility getting all your needs for free and still doing the things they were put in their for just doesn't seem to add up to me!!!

Answer 4

A 16 y/o with a 20 y/o is not a crime in all states. 18 is not the magic number. For example, the Missouri statutory rape law is someone over 21 with someone under 17 or anyone with someone under 14 (or maybe it's 14 and under). I wish people would let go of that myth.

Anyway, many sex offenders have undiagnosed psychiatric problems that lead them to commit these crimes. They should undergo extensive psychiatric treatment and many should be committed for life.

Answer 5

Kelly you sexist women can be sex offenders also and often are rapists and child molesters should be executed even those losers who are having "consensual sex with a 16 year old " because they can't find someone of legal age who can't see through them and what about a woman who assists in the abuse of her own child ( I do know a case that I won't go into here ) kill em all except flashers of course they are only providing a little entertainment after all oops i almost forgot the best part any false accusers they get the maximum penalty that their victim would have received !

Answer 6

I think there should be a death penalty for everything.

God certainly thinks this is the case because eventually he kills everyone. What have you done that God will kill you for? Just because he hasn't done it yet just means he hasn't gotten around to you yet.

If you have sex in some unusual way , like anything other than the missionary position with your legal spouse in a bedroom with the door closed and the lights off and at night, you are some sort of pervert and deserve to die anyway.

Just keeping perverts like you alive breeds other perverts who might have some other perverted sex deprivation like having sex with the lights on. Who knows what this will lead to. Maybe having sex more than once a month. Perverts! Kill them all & let God sort out the mess after all they were made in his image.

I'm guessing I won't win the best answer prize with this answer but you know it's true DON'T YOU !
I'll bet you have fanatsized about having sex with the lights on already. Where will this sort of deprivation end? What's next, having sex in the middle of the day?

Answer 7

depends on the crime.

What if she is trying to get back at him and cries rape. She is believed, he is convicted and executed.

What if someone is executed and DNA evidence later prove they were innocent?

But for the very terrible crimes like raping children etc I agree with the death penalty -- there is no way to rehabilitate these offenders.

Answer 8

I have no problem whatsoever with a Paedophile receiving the death penalty, other than the fact that it's a cop out for the lifelong damage they have inflicted on their victim(s). If there were another, more torturous method of punishing such people, I'd prefer that. Perhaps cauterizing their genitalia? Pulling out their fingernails? I could go on and on...

Answer 9

sex offender cases should be looked on as case by case. some states will charge people as sex offenders when it is indecent exposure. and when it concerns a 20 and 16 yrs olds hooking up, it should be intensively looked at. many 16 yr olds call rape when things don't go their way. also, 4 year age difference is not odd considering there are many older couples that have larger age differences.

Answer 10

Death penalty? No. Lock em up and throw away the key. Absolutely. There should never be any second chance for sexual predators or child sex offenders.