For debate!!!!?

Question

Lately I have been hearing a lot of child abduction and molestation cases on TV. Many of these suspects have committed these offenses more than once. To me the solution is a life senctence for anyone charged with this criminal activity for their 1st offense.
I truly believe you should not get a second chance on something you should know not to do already. I think this is the closest you get from preventing these criminals from doing it again.

However, I suspect our society does not want to engage in such harsh penalities. My question is why? What is it about our human heart that tolerates evil? Why are our hearts so weak that we cannot accept strict punishment on those who truly deserve it?

If any of you had your child kidnapped or molested how strong would you feel about the life sentence?

If you disagree with me on the above...please justify your disagreement. I am curious to understand why you think the way you do. This is more about you understanding yourself.

Answer 1

I agree with you 100%. It pisses me off to see innocent children snatched off the streets. These children lives will be affected by this act forever. Your punishment is light to what my punishment would be if i was in control. I would cut their hands off, so it would be harder or impossible for them to molest the youth of this country. I know that is harsh but the punishment for this sick bastards is to light today. No place is safe for children. not the schools, play grounds, chuch. Nowhere! This must stop!

Answer 2

I thought there is no cure for this affliction. Has anyone seen the movie Little Children? It is an urge that they cannot control. There is no wonder drug or surgery that will take away the molesters desire to repeat the behavior. They simply can't suppress it. Even surgical removal of their sexual organs won't stop them from using other tactics. Add the fact that some are extremely violent and deadly as well. Some want to stop and wish they could, medical science has no cure. There is technology out there to gain information about brain activity, perhaps they should do some extensive research into the minds of these individuals. While they're locked up they can donate their body and time to finding a cure. This is a serious issue and the problem won't just go away.

Answer 3

As of now, I have no children. I think that we don't give child molesters and child rapists life sentences the first time around because it is something they can't control. It's almost like a sexual orientation. And, if you are a parent, you only get the side of the child and not of the man....maybe, if the child is old enough to have sexual thoughts (around 9 and up) is it possible that they could "come on" to the adult?

I know all people think that their children are angels or are too young or would never do such a thing, but welcome to reality. When I was 9...girls were having crushes on teachers and I sure was.

Overall: It's something the people can't control. They shouldn't be put in a life sentence the first time but should deff. be monitored closely. After the second time, yes...throw them away.

Answer 4

I agree, but part of your logic is flawed. Yes, they know it is wrong, they just think they won't get caught. How many things have you done in your life that you regret, and at the time you knew it was wrong but you did it anyway? I'm not disagreeing with you. Only that part of it. I think they should be jailed forever, not because they did something they knew was wrong, but because most of them will re-offend and I believe that children should be protected at all costs. They don't get a second chance because they hurt one of our worlds most valuable resources, a child. That can have a disastrous ripple effect. What emotional scars is that child going to carry and inflict on others now? They must not be allowed to inflict that kind of pain again. I feel the same way about wife beaters and rapists, well all violent offenders really. Part of the reality though is the prison system is flawed and expensive.
If my child was ever abducted or molested, I wouldn't want a life sentence, I would want a death sentence.

Answer 5

I agree. The punishment should fit the crime. In some cases I think life in prison is too kind. I am for capital punishment in severe cases. In fact, I think there should be a torture penalty as well as a death penalty for anyone that has tortured an innocent child or woman. Some people are pure evil & should never be given the chance to hurt anyone again. Just my opinion. I don't think there's any justice in the justice system. Innocent men are convicted & guilty go free... but what's the alternative? Vigilante-ism? Taking the law into our own hands? An eye for an eye seems more just than a slap on the wrist to a murderous sicko who snuffs out innocent lives or scars people for life. If someone hurt anyone I love, I would execute justice myself...

Answer 6

Hell if I know. I have been asking myself those same questions for nearly a decade. I say one strike, you'll never do it again. Life in prison without parole. More money is spent on execution than confinement in our penal system, and too many criminals slip through the holes in our judicial system, so bogged down by minutia, inertia, red tape and politics that justice escapes along with the criminal, while lawyers, judges and politicians stand around scratching their heads, debating technicalities and the intention of the Constitution.

Edit: As for our tax dollars, they're already being spent on housing inmates on death row, many of whom die and/or are spared after exhaustive and expensive appeals. Sentence them to hard labor without parole. Our taxes will be returned in part, and have well been spent to begin with.

Answer 7

If we gave all child preditors a life sentence, our already overcrowded prisons would be busting at the seams AND our tax dollars would be paying to feed them, give them warm blankets at night, pay for a college education they will never use and feed them.

I don't want to pay for anything but the needle and IV bag filled with poisonous toxin to kill their worthless being. I wouldn't even allow for a sterile needle. Just stick em with the old rusty and used needles from the local low income health clinic.

I don't agree with cutting off their organs either. (As someone earlier suggested....) they will use other means as they continue to add to their list of victims.

Death. Period. The End.

Answer 8

A life sentence would certainly overcrowd our already overcrowded jails. What about a death sentence and then we wouldn't have to deal with the expense of housing and feeding them. Just wondering...

Answer 9

I agree with you whole heatedly, but jail or prison won't get anything done, I say chop off that organ that they value so much, and then they can sit in jail and think about what they did and why it was wrong.