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Why child molesters should receive the death penalty 23 Articles

  • 1 of 23

    by Brian C. Noell

    The Death Penalty for Child Molesters? Let's Give it a Try. It's time for the American people to stop letting child predators roam our streets and prey upon our young. This recent case in Missouri is just one of w...read more

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    by Matthew Ayers

    Child molesters are in the same criminal category as extreme violent offenders. Under most states revised criminal codes, the felony penalties are spelled out the same as those of lesser felony offenses. For example, inv...read more

  • 3 of 23

    by Pete Murphy

    Why is it that the rights of the offender are more important than the violation of the rights of the victim? It is more than unfortunate that criminal defense attorneys can make a ton of money, but there is no money for v...read more

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    by Linda Sunkle-Pierucki

    Today, the US Supreme Court vindicated my faith in their ability to separate emotion from reason. They ruled, with reason, that child rape does not legally meet the criteria of a death sentence. The five-to-four ruling rig...read more

  • 5 of 23

    by Katherine White

    Anyone who molests children doesn't deserve to live and it's the duty of every American to do everything they can to protect our children. It doesn't matter who's child it is that's been molested we all should fell outrage...read more

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    by Heidi Lowndes

    Child Molesters, Predators, Offenders- It doesn't really matter what you call them, the end result is a child's life has been short changed, ruined, and indefinitely causing that child to never experience the joy of their ...read more

  • 7 of 23

    by Luna(tic)

    I strongly feel that child molesters should receive automatic death penalty. I cannot even begin to stress how badly I feel that these sick people deserve to die. Not just child molesters but rapists and murderers as well....read more

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    by David Moffatt

    A Dissenting Voice It is very easy to pass judgment on a faceless "other". And it is a currently prevalent belief that strangers who molest children are everywhere, and in growing numbers. Ask where they are and for t...read more

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    by Roger Huntman

    Capital Punishment is one of the most debated conflicts in the United States. The question of capital punishment is this: whether it is morally correct to put someone to death for an offence toward humanity. If one would...read more

  • 10 of 23

    by Regina W

    Child molesters are the absolute lowest form of life on earth. Jail does not seen to be an effective deterrent for them. I don't think that the death penalty should be used for these offenders, because in many cases they t...read more

  • 11 of 23

    by Mona Aflague

    Should child molesters be put to death I am a survivor of child molesting. As a person who has experienced it first hand,I don't believe for one moment that a person should be put to death for it. We are a society who...read more

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    by Renee Dawson

    This would have made a great debate subject. This is Biblical justice: "an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth". You see the child molester has stolen from the child their life as it would have been had they not been mo...read more

  • 13 of 23

    by Thomas Sweeney

    Should child molesters be put to death? I have not experienced first hand what these predators do to a defenseless child. I have experienced the horror of listening to a news story talking about what this animal did to t...read more

  • 14 of 23

    by Dr.Cast

    I personally do not believe in the death penalty but having experienced getting molested and still living with the scar of getting molested. I believe child molesters should get the death penalty. Child molestation is a d...read more

  • 15 of 23

    by Corey Pike

    Some child molesters were actually sexually abused as a child and never received treatment. Those molesters that never received treatment after their abuse usually try and recreate their abuse in other children. These are ...read more

  • 16 of 23

    by Brian Wilkins

    I am writing this article, because this is a subject I am very passionate about. When I was about 22 years old I moved to Northern Virginia and lived in an apartment that was in Lorton, Va. I could look out my window and s...read more

  • 17 of 23

    by Ed Finn

    A Dangerous Question Many of you may have read the title of this article and wondered what it was going to be about. I know a lot of my articles have been dealing with stories of love and the death of love ...read more

  • 18 of 23

    by Tyronda Williams

    Are you kidding? They should be first in line to the electric chair or the lethal injection table! Child molesters are some of the most despicable individuals that there is on the planet, and they should all be put to de...read more

  • 19 of 23

    by Mean Angel

    I also am a fellow survivor of child rape and molestation and I can tell you these people do not change. My step father violated me for years until my mother left him it was not until later that I put it together he had do...read more

  • 20 of 23

    by Lisa Ouellette

    I can't believe this is a question? Of course, they should. Then the argument. It wasn't so bad that a death penalty is in order. I agree that some cases are worse than others, maybe because one child molester has a bit...read more

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