Do You Support The Death Penalty For Those Who Rape And Murder Children?

Answer 1

Not yeah but HELL YEAH!

Answer 2

You don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people. Your question is much too important to settle on the basis of sound bites or without answers to these concerns.

125 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t.

We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.

The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

Answer 3

I believe in the death penalty, but just barely. Execution is the worst punishment a person can recieve so should be reserved for the worst offenders, mass murderers. ie Hussain, Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, Timothy McVay, etc.
My 12 year old step daughter accused me of raping her. I was arrested and charged. At the preliminary hearing she said I had raped her over 6,000 times, and that she had been raped by over 200 other men including the District Attorney, the presiding judge, and several of her doctors and therapists. This was nothing new, she had been making these claims for almost 6 years.
The judge ordered me to stand trial. 4 doctors and 3 therapists testified that there was no evidence of abuse. All 4 doctors testified that my step daughter was a virgin.(3 of them examined her after I was arrested and still in jail)
She took the stand and after 2 hours of lying finally admitted she had made it all up to get me out of the house because I was coming between her and her mom. The jury came back after less than 1 hour and found me guilty and recommended life without parole. The judge overturned their verdict, found me guilty of sexual battery and sentenced me to 25 years probation and counseling. I was put on the sex offender list and had to attend therapy for almost 5 years.
Finally the appeals court overturned my conviction and ordered a new trial. At the new trial they brought my step daughter from the mental institute where the previous judge had sent her for observation. She denied knowing me or her mom, but was most anxious to tell the court how she was being raped by the therapist in the institute, and about how she was afraid that she would be abducted, again, by aliens. The judge dismissed the charges and I was released. 3 years later I finally got my name off the sex offender list.
We don't need a new death penalty law. What we need is some type of oversight on our court system so what happened to me doesn't happen to someone else.

Answer 4

Ya, if it is defenitly them that did it and its gonna happen publicly by something violent like decapitation within like a week of conviction so the death penalty would actually be a deterrant. But until humans are infallible and incapable of convicting an innocent person, I believe they should be thrown in jail, life sentence no parol, isolated, no tv, no books, no computer. (And a life sentence does not cost more like everyone thinks, it actually costs about 1.5 million dollars less ) Because over the past 30 something years over 127 people have been exonerated from death row and 21 have been found innocent after they have been executed. I wonder how many more innocent people have been murdered by the government.
It is not really the question of whether or not they deserve the death penalty, its really whether or not the government deserves to kill them.

Answer 5

If they have taken the life of the child by thier actions they should pay with theirs.

Molesting or raping child takes their life as if they had been murdered. Murder of a child is certainly a capital crime.

Either way the death penalty is the proper outcome to seek.

Answer 6

i say yes but only after they spended atleast 10 years in a special prison out of the country that is reserved for only them. After they get done torturing each other then and only then should they get the death penalty

Answer 7

NO i do not support The Death Penalty For Those Who Rape And Murder Children.

They should not get away wid such ease...

Instead, i think their penises should be chopped of in PUBLIC and given to eagles in Front of Them.

Answer 8

i don`t support the death penalty for any reason for one innocent people are found guilty of crimes they didn`t do every day
And two because someone behaves in that disgusting way doesn`t mean i have to drag my self down to their gutter level
but they should never be allowed out of prison

Answer 9

i dunno about the death penalty- the victims suffer worse than death every day of their lives having to live with what was done to them- i'm a firm believer in castration and some old school biblical identifier to mark them as a peadophile (some kind of cain like branding or scarlet letter type thing) so they will be constantly exiled and shunned from society after serving a minimum 30 years in prison. perhaps we should ship them all to some remote island and they can commit these atrocities to each other. I'm sure they'll enjoy that.

Answer 10

Death penalty is too lienient. Give them an orange jump suit and, a knife and parachute and drop them off over the Afghanistani \ Pakistani region. If they find their way out we put them in prison for ever. (Thats a big if).

Answer 11

Life in prison is a much worse penalty than immediate death.