Oh you're so badass, all gruff, never sugar coating anything. Needlessly being an asshole really makes you seem cool, not like an autistic child at all.
No. They're only words on a screen. Stop grizzling Lanny, it's boring.
The problem with US death sentences is that someone can spend 25+ years waiting to receive the penalty (average is 15 years, as of 2010). What kind of deterrent is that? There's a good chance a death row inmate will die of natural causes before the state finally gets to him. Some of them wouldn't live as long back on the streets; by sentencing them to death they are in fact being granted a life extension. And the appeal system is a joke, for example: "John Wayne Gacy, who confessed to killing 33 young males, filed 523 separate appeals, none of them based on a claim of innocence, and so delayed his execution by 14 years." It's beyond parody.
Before saying the death penalty doesn't act as a deterrent first try killing people much, much faster.
You've missed my argument. Harsher punishments in general are not a significant deterrent, if we're talking about the difference between a life sentence and the death penalty or between a 10 vs. 20 year term. We can't expect that adding prison rape to the potential consequences for a crime is going to reduce the frequency of that crime. If deterrence is our only concern then prison rape never makes sense.
Many people think deterrence isn't the only reason for prison sentences (no one would ever say "he deserved it" about a person with a life sentence otherwise). It's to these people that I'm arguing that prison rape is still unacceptable because if we really can establish that people "deserve" further punishment then we should codify that in our legal system, not let the uneven hand of inmates decide or allow criminals go without sufficient punishment.
I was talking more generally, but granted, deterrence, of any kind, won't work for some. The problem for paedo's is that they get declassified as human in the public eye, through actions which they choose to commit. Consequently no one cares whether they get abused, codify whatever you like into law,
no punishment will ever be too much; if you killed them quickly enough they wouldn't have to face repeated anal annihilation.
The alternative to killing them, or harbouring them in a potentially dangerous environment, is to essentially build
paedo towns, where they can all hang with the rest of their ilk
ad inifinitum in the knowledge their sphincters will probably be safe. This costs a horrendous sum of money and as we both know is ultimately a waste of time in terms of rehabilitation/deterrence. But paedo's largely do not accept that if they were all released once their sentences were served, many a rapin' n' fiddlin' would surely take place ('But we're cured!' Pfft.), hence their indefinite incarceration. And so they are unconstitutionally (according to them) deprived of their precious liberty.
All of this keeps leading back to killing them, swiftly.
Yes, yes, they shouldn't be raped in the meantime, because that's a breakdown in societal/prison authority, not because I give a fuck about someone giving a fiddler's colon a good hard broomstickin'.
