She Said-TOPIC: Executing child rapists-Since child rapists can’t be cured, they should be killed

The highest court in the land got it wrong. Supreme Court justices voted 5-4 Wednesday striking down a Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of people convicted of raping a child.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion which essentially said the Louisiana law violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
‘The death penalty,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.’
The Supreme Court’s four other liberal colleagues agreed with his interpretation of the Constitution in the case of Kennedy v. Louisiana, 07-343. The four more conservative justices dissented.
While I’d fit into the liberal category in most of the times, this is definitely not one of those times.
Currently, 45 states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape, while the five others allow it for child rapists. Of those five, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas allow executions when the defendant has a previous conviction on child rape.
There is no cure for pedophilia, all the experts agree.
As the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders notes, there are treatments for pedophilia.
One is behavior modification therapy. The experts agree: this approach has not been very successful.
Then there is psychotherapy. Again, it’s failed to have a high rate of success in getting pedophiles to change their behavior.
Pedophilia can also be treated by medications including female hormones, drugs which block the uptake and metabolism of testosterone (anti-androgens), and LHRH agonists. Of these only the anti-androgens have been shown effective in reducing the rate of recidivism.
The bottom line as far as prognosis goes, according to the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, is ‘not favorable.’
‘Pedophiles have a high rate of recidivism; that is, they tend to repeat their acts often over time,’ EMD concludes.
That is the bottom line: child rapists don’t stop with one child and one rape. Even if they did, that’s still one too many.
Child rapists can’t be treated successfully at this time. Put them in jail until they’re old and gray and chances are high that they will rape more children when they get out.
The rape of a child may not kill the body, but too often it kills the soul. The Supreme Court got it wrong.