Death penalty for rapists?

[Aractus]

Steven Thompson was executed in Alabama’s electric chair in May 1998 for the 1984 rape and murder of Robin Balarzs. The prosecutor at Steve’s trial described Robin’s killing as extraordinarily chilling in its savagery and prolonged infliction of agony. She was brutally beaten, bound and gagged, raped and stabbed before being dragged behind a car for 3000 feet.

I went to high school with Robin and Steve and knew them both. Robin was 3 years older than me so I only knew her in passing. Steve was just a year behind me though, and I knew him fairly well. I knew him well enough to know that he was a crazy dangerous son of a bitch.

The really sad part about Robin’s death was it could have been prevented. She wasn’t the first woman Steve raped. He had previously raped another classmate of ours in 1981. He beat, raped and left her tied naked to a tree. I have no reason to doubt that given the opportunity Steve would have done something similar again, and of am the opinion that the world is a better place without him in it.

Ok Pep (popeyespappy) let's get this straight.

If you sad to me - Aractus, I beat and raped a woman once, and left her tied to a tree. I was high on drugs, desperate, depressed, alone, suicidal and had nothing to live for. Aractus, you should condemn me, look down on me, hate me, see pure evil in my eyes; even though that was a long time ago and I'd like to change, and move on with my life now.

You know what I would say to you if you said all that to me? "I don't give a shit mate". Your crimes, other people's crimes, are none of my fucking concern. I wouldn't say to you "the world would be a better place without you" - fuck get over it mate, you're talking about ONE person who raped and murdered ONE other person, in the grand scheme of things it's inconsequential. The world would be a better place? It'd make no fucking difference whatsoever to the world, not even in the slightest, stop being so melodramatic about it and face up to the facts. The world goes on.

Now, here's the thing. I don't give a fucking shit what skeleton's people have in their past, if they've paid their debt to society why should it be any of my concern? Why should I condemn them for something they've already been condemned for? What's that you ask? What if they abuse their "Nth chance" at life? Simple: not my problem. I'm not going to take away their chance because they "might" abuse it.

You want to do something about it, then get off your armchair and do something to help rehabilitate hardened criminals back into society, but don't come and complain that they're not rehabilitated if you've chosen to sit, criticize, and do nothing to solve the problem.