And these families supporting this man for the rest of his life is?

like i just said its justice, theyre paying to keep him away from society so he can do no more harm to anyone

A lot of prejudice against child rapists in this thread. It's comments made by people like those here that prevents the justice system from being truly objective and unaffected by petty emotional responses.

I tell you what, let's say Jack here kills your family, or my family for that matter. Do you want to pay your money so this man may live?

If I killed a man, I wouldn't want to live. I forfeited my ability to choose to live the second I killed him. Yes I'd probably be remorseful for what I did, but I would deserve to die if I ever killed a man. Saying "I'm sorry for gang raping and brutally murdering your daughters" doesn't make things right.

If you're not remorseful, that's even worse. What we have here is called "social justice". I agree with the majority on this particular issue.

Edited for spelling

if he killed me or my family, then i would expect him to go to jail for the rest of his life so he cant hurt anyone else, nothing more, nothing less, as for what would happen if i killed someone, the answer is i would deserve to be put in jail for life, so i cant hurt anyone else

Then sir, I respectfully disagree with your opinion. Thanks for the conversation and not devolving into calling me names. +1 for PS360ForTheWin in my book.

are you suggesting they havent and dont do that?

Is that because New Zealanders have no morals or because New Zealanders are all hippies? If it's the second one then thats a pretty awesome stereotype.

Anyway, economically it costs a lot more to execute somebody in the USA than to support them for the rest of their natural life - that much is simply not arguable under the current system.

"Once a killer always a killer" is a fallicy and something that you made up with no scientific evidence, the only statistic I can find for the united states is that 1.2% of people convicted of homicide re-offend within three years of release - that is a fairly small number and certainly doesn't support your theory.

I do not believe that anybody or any organization has the right to take a human life unless it is in clear self defence, defence of another or defence of your country.

They did it but now?  You don't get the death sentence if you go to the tiananmen and protest for democracy. Damned then I must have lost a lot of friends.

I have no issues with that, he murders innocent people. The US prison system is already overflowing with criminals who have done crimes that arent even half as bad as murder so frankly having one less person for the US government to pay thousands of dollars to house is a good thing.