Death penalty for rapists?

[Aractus]

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This might sound weird but...

I think it SHOULD be punishable by death...but I don't want it to be punishable by death. The crime of rape is heinous; it scars a victim emotionally [sometimes physically] for the rest of their lives. The only fitting punishment for such individuals who gleefully and sadistically partake in rape SHOULD be death because their kind aren't worth the resources we'd spend on them to be in prison. Same goes with murderers. But I don't want it punishable by death simply because I trust no government to be able to make the call of guilty with 100% accuracy and therefore I don't want to be an accomplice to murder of an innocent...since this IS a representative democracy I live in. Or, at the least, I want to mitigate how many times I am...

So yes. Rapists deserve to be put to death. But I don't trust the government to make that call.

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So then they don't "deserve" to be rehabilitated? Who the fuck are you to make that judgement and condemn someone to an irreparable punishment???

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I'm not fond of prison work, though. Corporations are constantly looking for ways to get cheap labor and prison labor might be their best option. They can claim they're creating American jobs by hiring prisoners to work for them, but their workforce will make just $2.00 an hr. What's more, I'm hearing about prisons putting prisoners in telemarketing or other telephone sales positions. I don't exactly feel comfortable with the idea of people having to give out personal information to convicts like that.

That's because your prisons don't do "prison work" correctly. They should pay a somewhat reasonable wage that is held in trust until their release.