Update: I like this idea from a commenter (emphasis in original):
“In the 18th Century, England could send its ne’er-do-wells to Australia. It was a viable option to the death penalty. My variation on that is simple: send them to Antarctica. Send them there with a parka, a tent, a sleeping bag, and a week’s worth of MRE’s [meal, ready to eat]. They can kill each other for food for all I care, and their life (or death) is up to them and their own survival skills…Couldn’t happen soon enough in my opinion.”
By the way, don’t twist my words or my meaning. I didn’t say I’d gleefully throw things at child rapists. 
I’d do it somberly. 
I just happen to think some criminals should be subjected to modern-day stonings. Is that so wrong?
Commenter Gabe, a Christian, has a reasonable response (unlike mine, apparently) to the questions. Check it out.
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I can’t remember a time when I didn’t advocate the death penalty for animals who rape children.
“We can’t do that,” people would say. “If a man can be put to death for raping someone, what’s to stop him from going ahead and killing the person if he’ll get the same penalty?”
I can see the logic. Sentencing a rapist to death certainly seems disproportionate to the crime of rape, but I’m willing to suspend logic when it comes to the violation of children. I hope capital punishment for child rape becomes law in all states.
And here’s the kind of death a pedophile should face: After he’s found guilty and sentenced to death, he should be tied to a pole in the public square. Every day, all day, until he’s dead, people are allowed to throw at him whatever they can lift. They can spit on him, throw rocks, cans, glass, shoot him with arrows (but no bullets), baseball bats, knives — and he stays tied to that pole in the heat, wind, rain, or snow with no food and only a little water to prolong his misery. And he receives no treatment for his wounds. How long can a person survive that? Days? Weeks? Who cares? His suffering is the focus. People who rape children should suffer a painful, humiliating death.
I’ve heard some say that convicted pedophiles should suffer the same torture they inflicted on the children: rape. In some cases, repeated, brutal rape. I agree.
Does that sound medieval? Those scenarios are two of my milder ones. Human rights, my eye. Too bad we no longer draw and quarter people.
Finally, what I hoped for might come to pass. I read a story this morning with the provocative title, “Proposals to execute pedophiles make headway in US.” I know that rape was punishable by death back in the day, but I had no idea that some states resurrected the penalty. An excerpt:
The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States…The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legislation to that effect.
In 1995, Louisiana was the first state to adopt legislation authorizing the death penalty for child rapists…Ten years later, the movement to make pedophilia punishable by death really picked up steam after nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped and buried alive in Florida by a man with a prior conviction for sex crimes.
Various versions of the “Jessica Law” sprang up all over in the country, imposing in most cases a minimum 25 year jail sentence and the wearing of an ankle bracelet for life for raping a child aged 12 or younger…But in some states, elected officials amended their versions of the “Jessica Law” by adding the possibility of condemning a pedophile to death.
They include Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina [Yee-haw! My home state!], Georgia and Montana.
I like it. I like it a lot. There are bleeding hearts out there who believe condemning a child rapist to death is wrong. In fact, some readers are against the death penalty for murder. You know where I stand, obviously. I am pro-capital punishment. Questions for you:
1) What are your views on the death penalty in general?
2) What are your views on the death penalty for child rapists, whether or not they murder the children?
