Today as I was driving the “Fruitliner” down I-225 there was breaking news … The Supreme Court had rendered yet another bizarre decision. That being, that the death penalty was both “cruel and unusual” punishment for child rapists.
Is it cruel? Certainly it is, almost as cruel as the crime. Is it unusual? Yes, and that needs changing in a big way.What really bothers me though, is that these “Justice’s” overturned the will of a jury, duly selected from the perpetrators peers. There was no indication of racial prejudice, or prosecutorial misconduct. It was the will of the people that this person had so violated acceptable norms set by the community where the act had been committed, that death was appropriate as societal retribution.
I spent more then twenty years working the streets as a Paramedic. I saw things that most people can only guess at. People are always asking, what was the most terrible thing that you ever saw? Guess what, it was child rape victims. Those kids lives were wrecked, forever, period. I went on calls involving three of them again years later, as suicides. As far as I am concerned, the rapist killed those kids. Others that do live? I have never seen one that was fully healed. Drugs, alcohol, and the absolute lack of an ability to have a fulfilling sex life themselves, or an ability to trust others are the norm. Worse yet, sometimes they became sexual abusers themselves.
The death penalty is appropriate for certain crimes …
I’m too angry to keep typing, more later …
Tags: child rape, Death Penalty, Law, SCOTUS, sexual assault
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
June 26, 2008 at 08:09
I guess the abortion loving, loony libber left is dancing in the streets right abut now.
In their SICK opinion it’s wrong to execute a murderer, or a child rapist, but it’s just fine and dandy to kill an unborn child, abortion on demand, abortion for ALL, what the hell, as far as they’re concerned, it’s just some cells that haven’t really become anything yet.
But to execute a child rapist, that’s another story altogether, it would be cruel and unusual punishment to put an ANIMAL to death for committing the most vile transgression any sane mind can imagine, it’s against their delicate sensitivities to put a murderer or child rapist to death, it’s much more civil and humane to either lock them up for life or hey, let’s just go ahead and spend a fortune trying to rehabilitate the bastards, then we can release them back out so they can once again prey upon the public, and our most valuable resource, our children.
Cruel and unusual? That’s what the SCOTUS says concerning the execution of a child rapist, so, let me pose this question to those 5 addled brained idiots that forced this decision, if the rapist is suffering cruel and unusual, WHAT IN THE HELL do you suppose the poor child has felt?
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