If someoone kills my son, they won't have to worry about deciding his death penalty fate. I'll take care of the sucker myself, however I have to do it.....kill now, plead insanity later~ isn't that how it's done? And do you think I'm gonna pull one of the old standards someone sentenced to death does?

"Oh, I'm so sorry for what I've done, and God has shown me the way."

God will know why I went awol apesh*t, and I'll deal
with him later. I know that also sounds terrible, but if he didn't care about my child's life, why should I care about his? Or, let's get him therapy, release him, and have him go do it again, ok?

Hey, it's your money.

I will have just saved you hundreds of thousands upon thousands of your tax dollars that you could be using to feed your own clan instead of him hiding behind Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, claiming to be reformed.

At this moment several young Australians are in an Indonesian jail, waiting to be executed for their part in drug trafficking. There are several issues here - anyone who goes to Indonesia would know that they have very strict laws about drug trafficking and the punishment is death. So why would they go, with drugs packed around their bodies and expect to (a) get away with it and (b) not face the death penalty.

I have said before, if it was me, I'd rather be dead than spend the rest of my miserable life in gaol.

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Yeah, but some countries' laws are still 3rd world. I don't think anyone should be put to death for drugs on such a small scale.

Some people will do anything for the right amount of money, regardless of consequences. Hell, people shoot convenience store clerks for less than 20 bucks. The money may be too good to pass up the threat of being caught, or, desperateness for the money, or they just don't care in the first place.

No one can know why a person really does what they do because we're not in their head, and frankly? I think we're better off not being able to, darlin. Some scary heads out there~

I think, in general, that when a society is strapped for cash or resources, you'll find that "judicial death" is in vogue, e.g. death penalties for trivial offenses, a positively-viewed suicide code, etc. Practically always applied disproportionately towards males, the expendable sex.

Whereas a more wealthy society, which is strapped for labor to manage its resources, will discover uses for even its most venial criminals, and "judicial deaths" like death penalties and suicides fall out of vogue. Such has been the history of our own United States, which inherited a draconian death penalty code from resource-strapped England and quickly discarded it because resources were abundant and labor scarce, every hand was needed.

I fall back on Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings, who had his wizard
Gandalf say "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgment."

omg, I'm a disgusting fan of the trilogy. I've never quite paralled LOTR with the death penalty before, but it makes sense. lol

I agree with IamTammy, if someone where to kill my child they better hope the police get there. As for being reformed and back on track I find that hard to believe. I havent done the research yet but there are those that say they have reformed and are "cured" yet immediately get out and begin focusing on their next victim while all the while we are blind to what is about to happen.

If they are on the straight and narrow and wanting to live a lawful life afterwords, why are so many child molesters not registered. and accounted for?

O'dear~

You're correct. Niquil, remember? ;-) Hence, posting at 6:40am central~ And yes. I totally know the scene of which you post~ (my dear, when you get set up, you have GOT to get the trilogy, take a lazy day with nothing to do, some popcorn and watch them all. It's a looooooooooong watch, but it's so worth it. It truly is tremendous.)

I received my book The Hobbit, a paperback, from a teacher/friend that lived next door when I was a child, and still have it.

Rachel~

ANYway, I know that maybe an elite few can be reformed, but also, if they've gotten away with something for so many years like molestation, or heck, remember Jeffrey Dahmer? He ate his evidence.

A few months or years cannot help them if they're not getting intense psychotherapy, and even then, there are no guarantees. Some people are just truly sick, evil, or a happy lil' combo of both~ they've actually given warning signs, begged for help, and it's been ignored.

But there are always, ALWAYS signs, no matter how minute. It's just up to people to either notice them, or not ignore them. Whenever you see a neighbor that has a news crew mic stuck in his/her face, what do you hear?

"Gosh, he was always so quiet, polite, kept to himself......I can't believe he'd do this."

He may have eaten your dog that went missing last year~ you don't know.

Ignorance is bliss, I suppose~

you really dont know.And yes there are warning signs. But as a society are we at a stage that we would rather be more comfortable punishing them after they have done something that could have been provented. Then helping them to get the help that they need before they get to the point of no return.

Its almost like giving patrenting classes to parents after they have commited an offence wouldnt it be better to give these classes so they dont get in trouble?