Should child killers be sentenced to death by lethal injection?
I personally feel lethal injection is too humane for these people. I feel that rapists, child molesters, child murderers, and kidnappers should be put to death but in a much more crude fashion. I know if it was someone in my family I would want to make the decision. Personally I think they should bring the electric chair back into commission.
I think lethal injection is too good for those monsters. Sadly,due to sexism in the court system,most mothers who kill their children do little or no jail time and rarely get the death penalty. Most of them get a few months in a mental health facility and medicated. Men in the United States are far more likely to be sentenced to death for the same crime that a woman will not do time for. In the UK it seems as if the laws are even more lenient and that’s why we always hear about the gruesome murders of children. If they did the same thing to an adult they would be punished a lot more severely.
That’s quite a question…. I am personally not an advocate of the death sentence, however I think you offer a compelling argument. Too many times we are told that ‘lessons will be learnt’, however they seem to be an awfully long way from learning them. The Baby P case can be blamed on the social workers and while these people are being defended and hiding behind the social services badge, I feel they should be made to stand forward and explain why this baby was allowed to suffer months of horrific abuse. With regads the death sentence issue, while i don’t believe we should re-introduce this, I do believewe should be much MUCH tougher with our sentencing of child killers and abusers. In certain states of the US, the assault of a minor carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole…and let’s face it, child killers and abusers rarely get off lightly on the inside.
