SCOTUS knocks down death penalty for raping children - says it is not a "proportional punishment"

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

And all children know the difference between right and wrong and never lie.

And children are never used as tools against someone else....

Really, think about this.

Personally, kill me before life in prison. Why do we want to give them the easy way out?

[almaty 19]

Life without the possibility of parole would seem more reasonable to me.

I have been raped as a child and not only once.

I would not get any satisfaction out of that person being sentenced with death penality. Life sentence without parole would. Lock him away and let him think about what he did for whatever time he has left.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Repost: I still favour the "let the prisoner make an 'escape attempt', and then 'encounter' same" approach.

[HAL 9000 96]

[Saddle Bronc 124]

In desi, "encounter" means that criminal is killed in police custody, but claim is made that he was killed in some other way.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

In desi, "encounter" means that criminal is killed in police custody, but claim is made that he was killed in some other way.

An excellent and effective (if not ethical) strategy.

I was in North India when this technique was beginning to be widely applied. Hindu-Muslim riots, which were basically a cover for rival gangs to battle for land and money, pretty much died off once the UP police started doing that.

[HAL 9000 96]

Yeah I've heard of people having untimely accidents in certain US prisons already... this would seriously not be that unexpected. The was for Ms. Squirrel... this kind of Sh!t happens all too often.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Shawshank Redemption, good movie.

[HAL 9000 96]

Shawshank Redemption, good movie.

Yep. Just don't get shanked here.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The key point to this ruling IMO is that it basically prevents the DP from being expanded to cover "non-capital" crimes. This is pretty much the same reasoning that shot down previous attempts to execute the "Mentally incompetent".

[Sister Fracas 5]

Life without the possibility of parole would seem more reasonable to me.

I have been raped as a child and not only once.

I would not get any satisfaction out of that person being sentenced with death penality. Life sentence without parole would. Lock him away and let him think about what he did for whatever time he has left.

I completely relate...as a child sexual abuse survivor myself. Unfortunately, my abuser never had to pay for his repeated crime as I never outed him. And now he's dead.

Parents, make sure you talk to your kids at a YOUNG age about sexual abuse. It MUST be done.

Edited June 26, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[Jack and Barbara 0]

and one does not even have to look to know which justices are in the five vs. who the four are.

I guess one would need to look seeing as how 6 versus 3 of the Justices were appointed by a Republican president.

one might not need to look on today's ruling of the gun ban to know who the five vs four are...

[Amby 490]

Life without the possibility of parole would seem more reasonable to me.

I have been raped as a child and not only once.

I would not get any satisfaction out of that person being sentenced with death penality. Life sentence without parole would. Lock him away and let him think about what he did for whatever time he has left.

Julie and I have a very similar situation and I'm with her on this one.

[Amby 490]

Life in prison is justice enough

Is it?

Sure. Eye for an eye. The child didn't die, therefore the rapist must live.

Well, the child was raped. And the child wasn't physically prepared for that sort of thing.

So I'm imagining we rape child rapists.

But we do it with a giant machine that we invent for this purpose. If a little boy is taken advantage of by a man three times his size, well let's rape him with a machine three times his size.

That would be eye for an eye. Not this life-in-prison #######.

Fair enough. We rape him with a giant machine, then let him go, right?

What you first said is right. The second isn't enough unless you continue to do it to them for the rest of their life. Then, maybe they will get an idea of how it feels.

[franklie 0]

If you're a child and naive and you have to choose between death and being buggered, which do you choose?

Is it really a choice?

And are you now gay?

Rape does NOT only happen to females. Nor does it only happen to guys in prison.

Rape in adolescence, at a time when one's sexuality is just beginning to blossom is a horrible thing.