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Originally posted by rival
The real problem I see here is that it won't stop at people who abuse children. If someone can be murdered by the state for raping a child, then the next step is captial punishment for the raping of an adult. Pretty soon you're chopping off thieves hands, hanging people who assualt women and taking a bamboo cane to people who spray paint freeway overpasses.
You have to set limits with something as grave as capital punishment. In every western society I can think of, that limit is murder.
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I don't see a thing wrong with any of the above... Only problem with capital punishment is the length of time involved and the cost due to mandated appeal, etc. Just throw him into the general population and let them deal with him - He'll be dead before you can say John Geoghan.