Capital punishment for these b,s who abuse and kill children who cannot protect themselves. Its too often now?

Question

I have just been reading the news and all it is children being horrifically abused and killed. This country has got to get a grip. Our forensic and DNA is sufficient nowadays to make sure nobody gets wrongly accused. I hope the accused get whats coming to them and when their time is up explain to our maker if he gives them a chance that is. Let the publc vote. It cannot carry on and the system has got to change because it is happening too often. My heart goes out to these poor children who have suffered unimaginable torture when we as adults are here to look after them. Hope you all rot in hell.

Answer 1

I am also apalled by how short sentences paedophiles get!


P.S.: Answerer David, don't say they should be put down like a dog - dogs have nothing to do with the matter.

Answer 2

When I was young (20ish) I was asked the same question and I was vehemently against the death penalty, because I thought that if one innocent person was hanged it was too much. I have had another 30+ years on this earth since then. I have seen and heard such terrible things that happen to children, Jamie Bulger 14 years ago was the same age as my Grandson and I cried for weeks for that poor family. I know the killers were children themselves and we have all heard of their bad upbringings but I must admit that at that point in time I could only think 'what if it had been my grandson' I would have taken their lives with my own hands. Any of these ghastly crimes against children, including paedophiles (who do not think they are doing anything wrong and cannot be cured and will only continue to abuse children on their release) yes I would vote for the death penalty. Prison is supposed to be a way to rehabilitate the offender/criminal. You cannot rehabilitate these people, therefore they have no longer a place in our society. This would also help towards sorting the problem of prison overcrowding. I am not naive I know that most criminals reoffend once released but there are a few who can be rehabilitated and therefore it is worth trying with them. Anyone who has raped, murdered or harmed children who on release, would continue to be a threat to innocent should never be given that chance. They release these people every day knowing that they will reoffend. They are supposed to keep a check on them, that doesn't stop them killing. Their probation officers can't cope with their workload, they don't know where they are or what they are doing. They disappear from their address only to continue to prey on innocent human beings. If they continue to refuse to reinstate capital punishment for these people they should never be allowed parole and remain locked up for the rest of their lives. It is not only the lives of the people/children they kill they often end up killing the families, not only breaking them up but some of the literally (via suicide). I still realise that reinstatement of the death penalty can mean an innocent person may die, but how many innocent people have died by letting these monster out to kill again.

Answer 3

As you see from all previous answers, many people agree, but there are two problems.
1. People should also be very careful of believing forensic science is as good as TV shows portray. There is always a chance that innocent people are found guilty by a jury and so society murders an innocent victim who may have been stitched up by personal enemies or the police with false evidence, and
2. The UK would be obliged to leave the European Union as the EU Treaties forbid capital punishment.

Answer 4

The fact is you're not solving any kind of problem. You're just meeting out what you consider to be some wasteful kind of justice born from emotional response. Fair enough, I suppose. Yet, why, when there are other things that can be done. Why can't we use these vile miscreants. Medical science has always been hindered by the inhumanity of experimenting on people to find answers and indeed cures to the mysteries of contemporary science. I cannot help but feel that any question of ethics becomes a moot point when the subject on the operating table is a raping child killer. Who knows, perhaps this way, they'll find a cure!

Answer 5

I totally Agree with you, but its not going to happen.
There are too many do gooders around these days that come out with the crap they had a rough up bringing and coudnt help it. Therefore we should give them a chance and send them on holiday, give them a bit of rehab. Complete and utter Bollcks.
They still know right from wrong no matter how bad a time they have had.

Answer 6

Ohhh...how I agree with you. It just makes me sick to my stomach. As a mother, I find it utterly disgusting. We do our best to protect our children. I don't even let my little ones play in the front yard. They can only ride their bikes if they are with us. I take them to and from school, even though it is within walking distance. I think an automatic death sentence should be instilled for anyone that abuses and/or murders a child. No sitting on death row for 10 years at the taxpayer's expense. One trial, no appeals. That's it. There is no cure for a pedophile. Once a pedophile, always a pedophile. They are a menace to society. And as such, should be eliminated. I think our children would be safer if our laws would insist upon harsh punishment for these criminals. And if that means death, then so be it. I won't miss them and I don't think anyone else in their right mind would either.

Answer 7

Just some thoughts on reading the answers so far...
Anyone who commits murder -and is proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt - should have NO human rights.
We, the taxpayer, should not have to pay to keep such scum in their cosy prison life. Death sentence should be mandatory.
A child murderer should be put in a room with the family of the victim - and given the chance to explain his actions. Let's see who comes out alive.
And the sickest thing of all with this specific case...it's allegedly the girl's UNCLE, the brother of her mum or dad, who did this evil deed.

Answer 8

I agree. The problem is that the judges that hand out the sentences and the congressmen that make the laws are elected officials. If we continue to elect Liberal Democrats to these position nothing will change. We elect people who believe it is okay to kill an innocent unborn baby but are against the death penalty for a child rapist or murderer. To me that is totally hypocritical. Christian Republicans need to stand up and vote because we are just as responsible for allowing these liberals to be elected.

Answer 9

I consider myself a do-gooder but I want to do good for the children who suffer at the hands of these dispicable people, not for the sickos. I completely agree with your sentiments. We are reaching the stage when it's simply too easy to put them in prison. People like the man who killed that little girl (and I can't imagine what her poor mother is going through) forfeit their right to fairness and compassion when they commit the acts that so disgust us all.

Answer 10

We do vote but the politicians take no notice of us. Time to change our votes? Go to the extreme party and show them we mean what we say? Who knows the answer. But capital punishment - YES. Child killers and abusers have no rights left at all.

Answer 11

I fully agree with you, people of the UK stand up and be counted, put pressure on the government and the do gooders.
We have to be strong and get rid of all these sick perverts once and for all. It's in the hands of the British people to do something positive about it.Let us reverse this murderous madness that is going on in our society. Give them a taste of their own medicine, if the scum want to deliberately set out to murder innocents
give them the same treatment back,an eye for an eye and a tooth.