Comments on: High Court Spares Lives Of Child Rapists

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[samthetvcat]

I''m surprised that there aren''t more people like myself who support the death penalty, but not for rape.

Do people support it because they''re thinking child molestors are scum who have no social utility whatsoever and therefore need to be wiped off the face of the earth, or do people support it because they believe the punishment fits the crime? Because apparently even your average garden variety murderers, rapists, and the like think child rapists are the scum of the earth so you can only imagine what treatment of child rapists is like in prison.

Like it would seem perfectly fitting to have child rapists serve life sentences without the possibility of parole along with the general population. I guess one argument that could be made in favor of why child rapists ought to be given the death penalty is that because they''re SO reviled even by other hardened criminals, they''re always given administrative segregation which is maybe better than what they deserve. An alternate argument might be that even under segregation, the worst of the worst essentially do get the ''death penalty'' . . . didn''t Geoffrey Dahmer get ''shanked''?

[terrorislami]

the liberal leaning unsupreme court injustice nancys have obfuscated their duty of enforcing the law and the constitution as written,,, that makes them irreverent,,, therefore,,, now there will be anarchy,,,


NO JURY WILL CONVICT YOU FOR KILLING THE MAN THAT RAPES YOUR CHILD,,, NONE

this will be what the cajuns do from now on,,,

A TIME TO KILL,,,

just like in this movie,,,

A Time to Kill (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/

[dabsgram]

This is utterly amazing to me. The perpetrator cannot receive the death penalty because the victim did not die. For all intents and purposes, the victimized child, along with his/her parents, grandparents and siblings might as well have died because life truly will never be the same again. I have long been a supporter of our judicial system, but this is most assuredly a very misinformed decision.

[papabc]

The violent rape of a child should end in death for the criminal. Any other rape of a child (New born to say 12 years) should be life without hope of release.

The high court is stepping on States Rights and this needs to be corrected.

[CBSTV]

The only troubling aspect of this court decision is that the victory was by just one vote.

[terrorislami]

Posted by cold777 at 09:57 PM : Jun 25, 2008

so you are saying that the states should give up their rights???

you want the government to break federal law???

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. ' 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states, their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.

good one nancy,,,

the problem lies squarely with demonic-rat controlled lose-iana,,,

and you know that is right,,,

[cold777]

terrorislami: Wow, I didn''t know Heck of a Job Brownie worked for a Democratic President! Guess you learn something new every day......

[terrorislami]

Posted by HollyToledo at 09:47 PM

when will the people of louisiana,,,,

new orleans takes in 1 billion a year for mardi gra,,, not a dime to protect their city,,,

louisiana has a long and colorful history of corruption,,,

not one other state had a problem with fema,,, not one,,,

only louisiana,,,

when the government aske the other states should fema system be changeg??? they all said NO!!!

the problem lies squarely with demonic-rat controlled lose-iana,,,

and you know that is right,,,

[cold777]

I wonder how they are going to rule in tomorrow''s case?

[cold777]

Since when does our government care about what happens in Louisiana?


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Posted by HollyToledo at 09:47 PM
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Good observation!

[terrorislami]

Posted by TiredoftheBS at 09:35 PM : Jun 25, 2008

it will be called a crime of passion and he will go FREE,,,

GOT IT,,,

no jury will convict him,,, none,,,

[downsteamjim]

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[downsteamjim]

To NAUcoming4U: Hey I was just joking. Teddy''s a Kennedy therefore is not bound by the laws of common people.

[terrorislami]

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[tiredofthebs]

NO JURY WILL CONVICT YOU FOR KILLING THE MAN THAT RAPES YOUR CHILD ....


Posted by terrorislami at 09:26 PM : Jun 25, 2008


We''re NOT talkin'' about Hollywood here. If it were clear that this was the reason a defendant killed another man, I WOULD! Not that I don''t think that raping a child is the most disgusting, heinous crime a man could commit. Rather, the law is the law. You play VIGILANTE, you go to jail. DON''T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN''T DO THE TIME!

[naucoming4u]

To formsrus: ''''Death penalty is for murder.'''' Where is this found in the constitution? Also should Ted Kennedy have been executed for Mary Jo?

Posted by downsteamjim at 09:28 PM : Jun 25, 2008
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To be considered "murder" there must be intent.

That example you gave would be considered involuntary manslaughter.

[naucoming4u]

Now if we put all the Marijuana users/offenders in treatment programs as opposed to jail... then perhaps we would have enough space to house rapists for life!

What a concept... jail... for those who are truly a danger to OTHERS and NOT just themselves!

[myeyedea]

I don''t think that is appropriate to restrict the DP to just murders. Of course murder is reprehensible, but sometimes there are things people do that are much worse than murder - and maybe raping ONE child doesn''t count to some people; but what about raping multiple children? Wouldn''t that present a severe & irrevocable depravity to soceity? I do believe death should be an option for meting justice, but in any debate on the DP I''ve never wavered from feeling those persons who''ve established an incontrollable dedication towards violent crime or who''s initial crime was so emmense & awful should be considered for the death penalty. A serial violent rapist for example; why should this type of person be put on a predator list & set free? Why should this type of person be allowed to live, however restricted, while his prisonmate gets death for the murder of a person in a much less violent way, and is remorseful and penetant for his crime? I don''t feel that all people who''ve committed a murder are irredemable, but I do feel that serial rapists, especially violent ones, certainly may be. There are crimes, IMO, that can be considered worse than murder & death should be an option for those crimes if a jury feels that is necessary.