Apparently they have the assassin in custody now
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I want this to be a genuine turning point. That can start by holding a quick trial and executing this guy. Publicly. None of this 20 years later bullshit. Show that you mean business. If the evidence is clear and/or he pleads guilty, no reason he shouldn't be dead before the end of this month.
And if you know it is the guy beyond any doubt, I am not against torture. Squeeze out information on anyone who helped him and give them a similar fate. Send a message to these psychos that playtime is over.
Public hanging.
Stream it on social media.
I draw the line at torture though. That's just evil.
Just remember, morals are for people.
Yes. If one engages in torture it means they are an animal and can face the wall alongside the assassin.
Honest thought experiment:
One of the reasons that people advocate for softer punishments for child rapists is the possibility that they will choose not to kill their victims if the sentence for murder is harsher than the sentence for raping a child.
This idea only exists because our executions are, essentially, relatively painless binaries. You’re sentenced to death, you’re strapped to a chair, you’re injected with poison, you die quickly with very little suffering. A modern execution is basically flipping a switch.
But that wasn’t always the case. Used to be there were many degrees of pain and suffering involved in executions, depending on the method chosen. And that choice was often based on the severity of the crime. In this way, society could mete out fitting punishments for a variety of offenses within the “death sentence” category. Do something extra heinous? Receive more suffering before the mercy of death.
Were those times more barbaric? Less humane? Maybe. But to my mind, letting off a child rapist with prison time because you need to “leave yourself more runway to punish the ones who also murder the kid” doesn’t seem very humane to the children or their parents. Maybe our ancestors deliberately built those runways longer so that demons had more to fear than a quick and painless death.