This is a comment by MsRN on the post “Talking Myself Out of Murdering Jerry Sandusky“.
“I understand your point that what the Texas father did might put him in jail and that little girl may have to live without her father for awhile. However, as a victim of child sex abuse I wish someone acted violently against my offender. Instead, everyone minimized the situation and he ended up not going to jail (and he was convicted of two prior child molestations acts before this). Some of the worst damage to me as an adult has been the repercussions of the lack of actions of the adults around me. That little Texas girl will never have to wonder if what happened to her was “really all that bad”. Her father made it clear that her life and her body are worth more-and that the man who did that to her was a monster. But, I loved your response about Penn State, I applaud you.
“To continue, Jesus Morales probably would have gone to jail, been released, and committed more atrocious acts. The average sex offender molests 200 kids in his/her lifetime. In theory, I don’t think we should kill rapists or child molesters because I don’t believe in the death penalty. In reality, if it were my own child, or any child for that matter, I would probably do my best to murder the offender with my own hands, despite the consequences. Because I know the child has a better chance to fully recover from the abuse if someone shows them they are worth it.
“Life in prison is really the only option. Prison reform is crucial, but so is societal reform. We can not tolerate people who tolerate child molestation. And people who tolerate or ignore it should be severely punished. That’s the only way to get rid of the monsters.”
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“We can not tolerate people who tolerate child molestation.” But of course we can tolerate the people who physically abuse children and people who rape adult females, right? Physical abuse hurts kids more than sexual abuse but this is America where violence is good and sex is bad. And of course we defend people who rape adult women by blaming the women for dressing too sexy or going out at night. “You’ll just waste millions on them which could be put towards the homeless, education, helping victims out, etc.” It costs more to execute someone than it does to keep… Read more »
Why does it cost more? It costs what, up to 100k a year to keep someone in prison? How much are the drugs to kill someone, or hell 5 bullets to ensure the brain has a quick ending. Death is quite cheap to accomplish, even humanely.
Because death row inmates have the right to appeal, which means further trials and more expense. The alternative is to get rid of the appeals process, which would arguably save money but would very likely result in innocent people getting executed.
Even those who admit guilt are likely to seek appeals if the death penalty is involved, because what have they got to lose?
Ahh makes sense.
Rehabilitation is not possible, as far as I know. And if it were, we can never be 100% sure the monster will never re-offend. So do we “rehabilitate” and place them back into public, with a 50% or even 10% chance the monster won’t harm another child? We can’t gamble on the lives of children like that.
It’s not “a waste of resources” to keep children safe. In a reformed prison system I imagine monsters being productive, building things, learning things, etc.– in captivity. Some people really do deserve to be in prison for life.
Being productive could be a good idea but it’s still pretty inhumane to have someone locked away for life with no chance of parole any way you cut it. I’d give them the choice for suicide, if they want to die then so be it. Those resources can help a whole lot more than keeping someone locked up. But hey, my view isn’t a popular one, I just think it’s a waste unless you FORCE them to be productive. Maybe get them to study how to create biofuel from bacteria in an economic manner. But either way it’s slave labour,… Read more »
What’s the point of keeping them alive? So that the state has no say who lives or dies,period.
What’s the point in keeping them alive if there is no chance for them to ever see freedom or reform? You’ll just waste millions on them which could be put towards the homeless, education, helping victims out, etc. Life in prison with zero chance of parole is a far worse sentence than death, it’s long term torture with no hope and quite frankly a waste of time. It’s society saying we don’t want this person to be in our society but we’re too scared to kill them, so we’ll lock them away and just let them seethe in their hatred… Read more »