TEXAS...ALWAYS ON THE CUTTING EDGE- OF KILLING PEOPLE

I snagged this article from a local news channel web site...amazing.

Texas lawmakers are talking tough about cracking down on sexual predators who prey on children. Some propose the death penalty for repeat offenders. That could generate hundreds more death row inmates in a state that already executes more than any other.

That's right folks...everything's big in Texas, including the pile of bodies of all those people the state has executed. Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure most or some of them deserved it, but a week doesn't go by that you see an article or a bit on the news about people who were snuffed by the state or waiting to be that are innocent.


Other ideas include long mandatory sentences for first-time offenders or eliminating probation. But opposition is flaring from unexpected sources – prosecutors and victim advocates. They fear some of the proposals would make it harder to get convictions. They also worry that tougher punishments would only increase the incentive for molesters to kill their victims to keep them from testifying against them.


Now this just flies in the face of logic as far as I'm concerned...all the criminologists and profilers and "experts in the field" will tell you, there's a huge diffence between say jeffery Dahmer and that guy that boinked his 14 year old baby sitter. Sure, he needs to be punished, but the death penalty for babysitter boinking?
Now...before I dig myself further into this hole, let me state for the record that I think molesting children is a very serious crime worthy of serious punishment.But I doubt seriously that the guy that fucks his 14 year old babysitter is going to kill her to prevent her from testifying, if anything, new stricter punishments including the dirt nap option would likely cause him to think about the babysitter while he fucks his wife...

And there's the question of whether the death penalty in sex offenses is even constitutional. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a death sentence for a Georgia man convicted of raping a woman. Justices called it an “excessive penalty for the rapist, who as such does not take human life.''

Since when does any politician here in Texas give a good shit about the constitution?
I think bunnypants proved that out as gubner and underlined it with a blazing hot poker as the murderer in chief. Seems to me they had it more on the ball in 77...life sentence for a rape? Absolutely. Death...may be a bit much.

But Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst(asshat) has led the charge for tougher penalties for child molesters. He's calling for a 25-year minimum sentence after the first conviction when a victim is younger than 14 and a death penalty option for repeat offenders.

So...Dewlap, what do you get if you molest a 15 year old?15 years? 16? 10 years? 17? Oh wait, that's right, 17 is the "age of consent" innit? And we all know we had it all in one sock when we were 17...
Here's a perfectly reasonable solution...everybody knows what the general prison population thinks about child molesters right? In case you live in a vaccuum, they fucking hate them. So here's what you do, put the child molester in the general population and it's sink or swim. I assure you they will never sleep again. They will be hounded and abused 24/7, and I can think of no better punishment...can you?