Comments on: Switching sides on the death penalty http://dianedimond.net/switching-sides-on-the-death-penalty/ The official website of investigative reporter author and investigative reporter Diane Dimond Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jeff liddell http://dianedimond.net/switching-sides-on-the-death-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-341 jeff liddell Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:14:22 +0000 http://69.4.225.2/~diandim0/?p=37#comment-341 There is nothing so innocent as a newborn child and nothing more difficult to watch than a child growing up with scars inflicted by uncaring adults. Never, never should a child suffer from any form of abuse. I am not a proponent of the death penalty as administered in this country. If the penalty is ever carried out, it takes years and only serves to keep the wounds of the victims and/or their families open and is not a true deterrent to crime. If a manner to serve the death penalty in a quicker manner could be devised, then it might serve its purpose. However, crimes against children should be treated with the most severity of possible punishments and perhaps a scarlet C stamped in the forehead of the criminal should also be considered. Simply registering as a child molester or pedophile can still allow one to walk anonymously through the streets where they live. There is nothing so innocent as a newborn child and nothing more difficult to watch than a child growing up with scars inflicted by uncaring adults. Never, never should a child suffer from any form of abuse. I am not a proponent of the death penalty as administered in this country. If the penalty is ever carried out, it takes years and only serves to keep the wounds of the victims and/or their families open and is not a true deterrent to crime. If a manner to serve the death penalty in a quicker manner could be devised, then it might serve its purpose. However, crimes against children should be treated with the most severity of possible punishments and perhaps a scarlet C stamped in the forehead of the criminal should also be considered. Simply registering as a child molester or pedophile can still allow one to walk anonymously through the streets where they live.

]]> By: Nasser N. Montes http://dianedimond.net/switching-sides-on-the-death-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Nasser N. Montes Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:45:55 +0000 http://69.4.225.2/~diandim0/?p=37#comment-108 Dear Ms. Dimond: I really know how you feel about your dillema: Being overall against the death penalty, but went it comes to molesting children you want those criminals to die, (and maybe a slow, painful death.) What makes me sick is that groups like NAMBLA think that it is okay to molest children. While they may have a right to that opinion (First Amendment) I hope when they get caught that they get the worst punishment that should be available (Death.) It was perhaps sweet justice when even the inmates at a Wisconsin State Prison, killed child molester/killer Jeffery Duamer. That just shows that even among criminals, child molesters are the lowest of scumbags. I think the Supreme Court dropped the ball on this, but it was not the first time, becuase there was a case in Florida that asked the same thing about giving the death penalty to child molesters. If I remember correctly, Florida actually had a statute that made child molestation a capital crime. The Supreme Court said that the law was cruel and unual punishment and thus unconstitutional. I say if we are going to have the death penalty, then you might as well put child rape on the list that includes first degree murder. Dear Ms. Dimond:

I really know how you feel about your dillema: Being overall against the death penalty, but went it comes to molesting children you want those criminals to die, (and maybe a slow, painful death.) What makes me sick is that groups like NAMBLA think that it is okay to molest children. While they may have a right to that opinion (First Amendment) I hope when they get caught that they get the worst punishment that should be available (Death.)

It was perhaps sweet justice when even the inmates at a Wisconsin State Prison, killed child molester/killer Jeffery Duamer. That just shows that even among criminals, child molesters are the lowest of scumbags. I think the Supreme Court dropped the ball on this, but it was not the first time, becuase there was a case in Florida that asked the same thing about giving the death penalty to child molesters. If I remember correctly, Florida actually had a statute that made child molestation a capital crime. The Supreme Court said that the law was cruel and unual punishment and thus unconstitutional. I say if we are going to have the death penalty, then you might as well put child rape on the list that includes first degree murder.

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