But you used a ‘hypothetical’ age of 19 or 20.
The girl was 12 years old (per my link).
I’m sorry, but child molesters in my book are no better than murderers, because they rob the innocent ‘life’ of a young child that can never be gotten back.
Supreme Court would disagree with you. Oklahoma and Louisiana passed laws that called for the death penalty for repeat child rapists. It was immediately challenged and the Supreme Court struck it down in 2008.
The liberals will argue that it is hypocrisy that conservatives will protect life in the womb, and won’t let a terminally ill cancer patient commit suicide, yet are willing to torture and kill criminals. The liberals argue this is proof that conservatives do not care about life. And that the whole debate over life issues is about conservatives forcing control over other people’s lives.
That’s the angle that is taught in schools and universities today. As I remember one of my high school teachers tell the class, “The Republicans want to be the ones to decide who lives and who dies.”
Of course the hypocrisy goes both ways. The liberals will kill a defenseless baby in the womb and will kill off people who they deem “too sick” for society to care for. Yet they hold candlelight vigils for serial killers.