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#1 Jun 09 2006 at 2:26 PM Rating: Good
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma on Friday became the fifth state to allow the death penalty for repeat child molesters, although legal scholars questioned the constitutionality of the new state law.

Similar statutes already are in place in Florida, Louisiana and Montana, and South Carolina's governor signed a similar law on Thursday.

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry didn't discuss the measure Friday as he signed it into law.

The law makes the death penalty an option for anyone convicted of a second or subsequent conviction for rape, sodomy or lewd molestation involving a child under 14.

Defense attorneys and death penalty experts said the measure defies recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have scaled back the death penalty's application.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, said the sex offender bills are a reaction to public outcry over the frequency and seriousness of sex offenses, and the attention they receive in the media.

No one convicted of a sex offense has been executed since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment 30 years ago, though one inmate is on death row in Louisiana following his 2003 conviction for raping an 8-year-old girl.


This is not as simple an issue as it appears. As heinous a crime as child molesting is, there is a very good reason why the death penalty should not be invoked in these type of cases. If a child molester knows he could face death for an act he has just committed, then he has an incentive to murder his victim to remove the witness. This is exactly the same reason rapists stopped being executed as a general rule so many decades ago.

I am personally in favor of the death penalty for the appropriate crimes. It provides the ultimate deterence to to certain types of murder. To clarify, I am not trying to start yet another Death Penalty thread, we have had plenty of those, rather the Issue here is: if we do have a death penalty, should it apply to child molesters?
#2 Jun 09 2006 at 2:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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I think we should tell the other child molesters they're just going to go live on a nice big farm for a while.
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#3 Jun 09 2006 at 2:49 PM Rating: Decent
I vote for mandatory castrations in cases involving child rape. Rape a child, get your balls hacked off with a rusty spoon. Simple.
#4 Jun 09 2006 at 2:54 PM Rating: Decent
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I vote for mandatory castrations in cases involving child rape. Rape a child, get your balls hacked off
My thoughts exactly.

there was a programme on the BBC a couple of years back and some Peado attually paid for it to be done to himself because he hated his "Unnatural Urges" so much.

Apparently once the nuts are gone the testoserone levels fall off and you have no sex drive.

Seems a perfect solution if it's a cut and dried case, but you have to be careful of when you invoke the judgement since if a 17 year old sleeps with a 15 year old technically it's child abuse.
#5 Jun 09 2006 at 2:56 PM Rating: Good
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Normally I am all against capital punishment.

However in the case of sexual predators with repeated convictions there isn't anything harsh enough you could do to them to make me feel bad for em. Chemical castration, branding their foreheads with a f[Antiquewhite][/Antiquewhite]ucking 'X' or even death. If they do it more than once they have given up any rights to be treated like a human.
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#6 Jun 09 2006 at 3:08 PM Rating: Decent
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However in the case of sexual predators with repeated convictions there isn't anything harsh enough you could do to them to make me feel bad for em. Chemical castration, branding their foreheads with a ******* 'X' or even death. If they do it more than once they have given up any rights to be treated like a human.


I second that. Here in Ga, they had built an elementary school by where this convicted child molester lived. He hadn't registered himself in the 60 days they gave him and the police never followed up. When people found out they protested right outside his house until he gave up and moved. The judge in the case said he didn't have to move because the school was built after he had moved there, even though according to his parole agreement he cant live within a certain amount of miles to a school.

Then some parents found out that he had tried to get 2 different girls to come into his house to see his new puppy. All the time this judge was arguing(sp?) how he didn't have to move, he tried to molest a child. Shortly after he moved, he was promptly arrested. They found out he actually had molested a child. :(

That story kills me so much.
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#9 Jun 09 2006 at 3:43 PM Rating: Good
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#10 Jun 09 2006 at 4:56 PM Rating: Decent
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and South Carolina's governor signed a similar law on Thursday

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#11 Jun 09 2006 at 5:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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dang, my state in news again!!!
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#12 Jun 09 2006 at 5:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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tarv of the Seven Seas wrote:

Apparently once the nuts are gone the testoserone levels fall off and you have no sex drive.


It's a nice thought, and maybe it even occasionally works. However, it has been shown time and time again that sex crimes very rarely have anything to do with sex, and are more often a display of power. That said, having much cut off besides the head won't help...

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#13 Jun 09 2006 at 5:45 PM Rating: Good
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Perhaps the problem is that we keep releasing these offenders so they can offend again, eh?

This is a bad move. Either we have the death penalty or we don't. Either one supports the death penalty or one doesn't. I don't, and appeals to my sense of moral outrage or emotional response to specific crimes aren't going to change that stance.

This "think of the poor children" approach to increasing the use of the death penalty insults our intelligence.
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