In comment 28 you write: “I need to put on my ear buds and turn my back on the situation. That way I won’t be morally obliged to interceed (sic) when the pro-death penalty crowd takes care of this problem.”

In comment 33 you write: “I’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds.”

Somehow, to be honest, it seems as though the earlier post is more genuinely you. And you don’t seem like such a bad guy, though a bit of a guilt-ridden self-deluding coward. But maybe, instead, you are more like the brave, honorable guy who’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds, and just hasn’t “gotten out there” and “started advocating this idea” yet. If that’s more correct, and I have misread the later comment as cheap posturing, well, I’ll make you a promise: You come ’round and start “advocating”, and I won’t help. Until then, you can just **** ***.

I’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds. When I get out there and start advocating this idea, it would help if you didn’t help.

Now I understand the appeal of this story to you sick, animal, barbaric, inhuman, torturing sadists. You think that you have found a case where it seems “responsible” to be as horrible a person as possible. It feels so good, to indulge in your little decapitation fantasies, your prison-torture dreams, to feel that wonderful firing-squad unity, and to claim that this time it’s RIGHT. We just HAVE to use these tools to protect ourselves, and it’s NOT because we enjoy it, oh no!

And so it seems you bloodthirsty hordes have this in common with this criminal; your self-serving rationalizations for what you know in your heart is horrible and inhuman just make you look more wretched.

It’s so sad to hear you profess your principles (”Ordinarily, torture is wrong!”) and then repudiate those principles at the first sign of a really bad guy! Why have principles at all? Or rather, if those principles can be bent, are they principles? Or are you just another thug who wants to beat the world into the shape you want? You are the latter, and you are despicable.

And then leave them in a cage – like an animal, to survive amongst other animals – for the rest of their “lives”.

For me, life in prison – without possibility of parole – is cruel and unusual punishment.

Shoot me in the head, inject me with that “painful” coctail, but don’t leave me to rot under your rug – out of sight, out of mind – while you congratulate yourself on being “humane”.

The only thing worse is what they do to Charlie Manson – make him go to a parole hearing every 7 years, even though everyone including Charlie knows he will never be released.

Nice “twist of the knife”, that is…

Of course you are right. The pro-death penalty crowd is morally corrupt. And generally, what we know about pedophiles merits not death or incarceration, but serious research and medical help…

But this guy isn’t just sick. He’s brazen about it. He knows what he’s doing. He’s cuckoo. A religion? I sacred right? He’s not the guy who can’t control this urge… He likes it and he’s up front about it.

I need to put on my ear buds and turn my back on the situation. That way I won’t be morally obliged to interceed when the pro-death penalty crowd takes care of this problem.

I NEVER shoot people out of hate, anger or blood lust.

It interferes with my aim…..

The fact is of all the despicable crimes in history, the people who commit this one ARE NOT FIXABLE. We’ve lost too many children to horrid and terrifying deaths trying to prove otherwise.

While I believe that most crime shouldn’t be punished under the eye-for-an-eye mentality, why should child rape be given this privilage?

There are some crimes that just can’t be punished/rehabilitated from properly without pain. This sick freak doesn’t deserve to die, he deserves to suffer. And once properly castrated, he can rejoin society in the service industry job (Taco Bell, McDonalds, etc..) of his choice.

Can you propose a better solution?

He sounds clever. We need to be sure his crime does not go unpunished by abusing the “system” to his advantage — if the evidence against him is correct.

He’ll have fun in prison.

Re. Death Penalty, it isn’t just vengeance, etc. It’s also self protection for society. There are certain people that no matter what you do, they are always going to be a threat. If you leave them around, then you condone what they do when they escape…

Your hatred and blood lust is despicable. Your desire for vengeance belittles you.

We remove dangerous individuals from society to protect ourselves from them. To the extent that we use that process to hurt the perpetrators we diminish ourselves. You are exhibits A-E, and you are very small, indeed.

Shame on you for wishing not for the end of pain and suffering, but for MORE pain and suffering. Revolting, mindless, and animal.