You can’t have it both ways. You said yourself if it is my child then of course the death penality. There is no situational morality, just death, and if not death then life in prison. It’s a proven fact that they will do it again upon release from prison. Why not just save everyone the time money and heartache and end it from the begining.

1. It may be more difficult to get a conviction. Juries may be less likely to convict out of fear of making the wrong decision, meaning more child rapists go free.

2. Death penalty is irreversible in cases of mistaken identity/wrongful conviction. If new DNA evidence after the fact shows that the accused is in fact innocent, there is nothing that can be done to remedy the situation.

I am more interested in protecting society from these vicious predators than I am in inflicting punishment. Sentencing these people to lifelong imprisonment in solitary confinement would both punish the offenders and protect society.

Many of these, not all, Child Molesters come from broken homes that the judicial system usually has to step in and deal with. Massive tax cuts, means that judges and family advocates and counselors will have less or no funding. This means the children involved in broken homes will have a higher chance of going on to commit State/Federal level felonies, including Sex Crimes.

Another thing affected by massive tax cuts is the reduction in law enforcement. Like it or not, law enforcement, be it local Sherriff/City Police, State Park Rangers, Federal Park Rangers, US Marshalls, Secret Service, FBI, or State Troopers (in Texas: DPS & Texas Rangers), are all paid with your tax dollars. Severe tax cuts = less of these law enforcement people to protect children.

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, the Amber Alert system, the Department of Health and Vital Statistics (Texas State Agency), are all paid with tax dollars. The reason these programs, commissions, and laws are running out of money is because both the US Federal and Texas State governments, as with the other state governments, are running out of money. These laws and agencies don't run on steam, fumes, vapor and good intentions, they, at the end of the day, run on money. Tax money that is.

I don't like the idea of the Death Penalty for these criminals, because knowing that a portion of the Texas justice system is sometimes poorly run in both it's inner city and deep rural areas. That means there is the danger that innocent people will get caught up in the hunt for Sex Offenders. That means that people who are not guilty of Sex crimes might be at risk of the Death Penalty for crimes they didn't commit. This, combined with low funding for the above mentioned programs and law-enforcement agencies, means that innocent people WILL GET CAUGHT UP IN SEX OFFENDER CASES, in which there will be the danger that the State will execute innocent people. Now, not only has the child molesterer violated a child, now they have helped the State government kill an innocent person. This does not take power away from Sex Offenders, this instead will help empower them and help them do more damage to society, not less. Good law-enforcement coverage, along with enforcing the law effectively and thorough investigation of suspected Pedophiles is all that can work on the criminal side of things. Fixing broken families and having better support for children from broken homes, and better law-enforcement for abusive parents is what it will take to help prevent the creation of future Child Predators and Sex Offenders.

I know what child abuse is, I was adopted at the age of 8 years because my birth parents were irresponsible, and I spent time in state facilities that had some older teens and adults that took advantage of me. When I was adopted, I learned right and wrong. I also learned that rape (including child molestation) was not truly about sex, but was about power. The power to do something violating to another person, in this case involving sexual organs, and then getting away with it, making the victim fearful and feeling unimportant, violated, and worthless and scared. The Death Penalty has really done nothing to decrease the violent crime rate here in Texas, because most offenders in this state think that they will never get caught, or they can play some card that will get them off the hook. Therefore they are not thinking about the Death Penalty when they commit crimes. For the rest of us, whether the punishment for a crime is years in prison, the county jail or even the Death Penalty, we don't commit crimes because for one, the crime is just wrong, is destroys our society, and we know that we might get caught, and we may even think that we shouldn't do said crime because we wouldn't like to have it done to us.