Sex offender castration, necessary? I think so...

[toranokaze]

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153618

[Flint]

Checking the state's sex offender registry, 22 violent and sex offenders appear within a mile of the girl's house. Some of them are classified as sexual predators. Eight of the offenders are within a half-mile of the home.

How hard could it be to round up an angry mob to burn down 22 houses in one night? I'm not seeing much of a downside...because even if you don't get the right one, you still got 22 scumbags who don't deserve to live. And if they scurry from their ratholes, you could easily round them up and perform some of the other corrective actions described in this thread.

I don't think any other sexual predators would be moving into that neighborhood. Of course, there is the potential problem of developing some Freddy Krugerism.

[Aliantha]

We leave windows and doors open at night here. It is concievable that someone could come in and abduct our children (although I think they'd have trouble with the big ones). I might behave differently if we didn't have dogs in the yard with access to all areas of the exterior of the house, but I've never been without at least one large dog, which in my opinion is a better deterant than a locked door or window.

[Aliantha]

With regard to the topic of the thread.

Castration might not be a deterant, but it certainly couldn't hurt to do it anyway. Pun intended.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Flint

How hard could it be to round up an angry mob to burn down 22 houses in one night? I'm not seeing much of a downside...because even if you don't get the right one, you still got 22 scumbags who don't deserve to live. And if they scurry from their ratholes, you could easily round them up and perform some of the other corrective actions described in this thread.

I don't think any other sexual predators would be moving into that neighborhood. Of course, there is the potential problem of developing some Freddy Krugerism.

Don't forget the 18 year old guy that got caught bonking his 16 year old girlfriend, before they got married, had three kids, and lived happily ever after, is still a registered sex offender.

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

While I'm all for public execution, it never works as a deterrent. I think it serves more as a means of revenge that satisfies everyone else's sense of justice.

Works for me... and solves the problem at hand.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Don't forget the 18 year old guy that got caught bonking his 16 year old girlfriend, before they got married, had three kids, and lived happily ever after, is still a registered sex offender.

You're right, of course. I know a "registered sex offender" who is a completely normal mother of three kids. Once upon a time, she found out that a boyfriend of hers was slightly underage (she was slightly over age). When she broke it off, he got depressed. The parents pressed charges.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, so we'll have to round 'em all up and torture each one until they confess... then kill 'em. Much more civilized that way.

[Clodfobble]

Also note that the crappy journalist included "violent and sex offenders" in the tally, which I'm pretty sure means violent offenders and sex offenders. So you're counting the dude who got into a barfight that one time, too.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wondered about that but he started off the sentence...

Checking the state's sex offender registry, 22 violent and sex offenders appear....

I couldn't figure out if the registry is all inclusive or not?

[DangerouslySimple]

Bruce, you added an excellent point. I had a friend who was dating someone who was 2 years younger than him, she was barely a minor. Parents were okay with them being together until he broke up with her for someone else... and the parents pressed charges. Now he's on the registry.

And recently they changed the registry, I believe. Now you either ARE or you AREN'T an offender. the old registry listed them by class. So now, the guy who slapped the girl's ass at the bar because he thought she was hot gets lumped in with the guy who raped 5 women and 2 kids. My kids' school sent home a note about the new changes, and I was talking to someone who said their so-and-so couldn't go to see his kids' recitals at school anymore, because he had some bogus charge before he was even a parent. It didn't matter to the school a few weeks before the law was changed, but now- under the new law- he's not allowed on the school grounds. Talk about failing the public. I'm all for protecting the school yard from sexual predators, but I think in rare cases like these, they should be able to petition the school board for some sort of waiver, to show that they didn't really do anything, and don't really deserve to be shut out.

[classicman]

Public execution certainly stops one pedophile from ever doing it again - can't say the same for castration though.
(assuming he's been found guilty by a jury of his peers and all that.)

[toranokaze]

Assuming that the offender (male or female) is guilty that would stop reoffending.
Bring on the guillotine and a live web feed I say.

[classicman]

Ohhh - I like that tora! I like that a lot - maybe even a pay-per-view with the proceeds going to help the kids or something.

[GunMaster357]

I'm not sure that public execution is a good thing either as a deterrent or a revenge. I wouldn't want to abase myself by being so bloodthirsty.

Nowadays, we have the technical means to determine if a person is the culprit, mostly by the use of DNA analysis.

The last person to be executed by guillotine in France was convicted of raping and killing a little girl. But even today, with all our technical arsenal, no one knows for certain if he did it. That's what prompted the fight over the death penalty, and finally the ban.

Therefore, before starting to hand death sentences again, I think, IMHO, that we need to define which kinds of crime make the death penalty come into play and what are the rules for that (DNA present, nor present, witness reliability, etc) and alternate sentences.

Then, when it is done, we will have to enshrine it in the Constitution in a way that no politician, can change it, no matter what circumstances can be. Otherwise, we could find ourselves back in the days where stealing bread because we are starving could bring a swift death.

This is my own opinion, one I had more than 20 years to forge since I became an responsible adult.(Majority in France is 18 - I'm not sure about the responsible part ).
I changed from no death penalty to kill them all and now to a selective attitude.

[UncaDollas]

Those Priests are at it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbWw1XlXyM