Ha. We beat Texas.

Texas may be speeding up executions, but we are expanding them beyond killers. CNN has an article up about a movement to allow the death penalty in the case of repeat child rapists. Frankly I don’t know what to think about this.


My understanding is that pedophilia has proven most resistant to eradication in an individual. The most effective, and most instances only, long term means of stopping repeat offenders is to remove all possibility or opportunity for the person to commit a repeat offense. That usually means prolonged incarceration or removal to locations without child populace. The question is whether people who go out of their way to repeat offend, don’t want to stop, and have irreparably damaged the lives of multiple children should be locked away forever, or should they be put to death.

Frankly I don’t know. It’s really expensive to lock people up forever. I would entertain the idea that they help offset some of the cost of their incarceration. Anyway, it’ll probably get shot down as unconstitutional, or it won’t pass at all.