Florida lawmakers pursue death penalty in child rapes

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This should be interesting.

TALLAHASSEE - In a move that likely would spur a constitutional fight, Florida lawmakers appear ready to pass a proposal that would allow the death penalty for people who commit sexual battery on children under age 12.

I've been in favor of this for a long time.

 

[whitehall]

It's not a political issue. The procedure has years to go in the courts. Meanwhile about 200 convicted murderers remain on death row in Florida.

 

[bodecea]

bodie is a sick, twisted, perverted creature, that's for sure.

I'm not on Team Pedo-Marriage Legalized.

 

[bodecea]

Execute everyone of them. I will never support a child molester. Biden is a liberal, liberals are never held accountable for their action. First you loons said the diary wasn't real to defend Biden. Now two people are charged with stealing the diary, so that makes it true. Biden’s daughter is a drug and sex addict because of the abuse she got from her dad. What are you doing, making excuses for him.

So you are either admitting you have no evidence that President Biden is a pedo and you are just covering for the GOP pedos..............................or you are complicite.

 

[jknowgood]

So you are either admitting you have no evidence that President Biden is a pedo and you are just covering for the GOP pedos..............................or you are complicite.

The diary is real and his own daughter wrote that it happened? You calling her a liar? Biden has been groping little girls his entire life. Why are you sticking up for a pedophile that molested his own daughter?

 

[nomadic5]

I don't see ONE response to this point that was made:

that maybe we should execute child molesters (rapists)

BUT

if we had that policy, molesters would be more inclined to murder their victims,since they would get the death penalty anyway

No response

Instead, all we hear is

"I know you are but what am I"

"You're an idiot"

"I know you are but what am I?"

 

[skye]

 

[AMart]

Bodecea is like an insect on a decaying body on these threads. A real sick perverted fuck.

 

[surada]

This is precisely opposite of what libs are working towards

They want to legalize adult sex with children

You're sounding very sick, Mac.

 

[marvin martian]

You're sounding very sick, Mac.

You're here defending the incestuous pedophile you voted for. That's sick.

 

[Mac-7]

You're sounding very sick, Mac.

I’m telling it like it is

You might look at yourself and know thet you aren't a pedophile

But pedo’s wield great influence in the dem party

And in the end most libs will shut up and go along with it

 

[surada]

I’m telling it like it is

You might look at yourself and know thet you aren't a pedophile

But pedo’s wield great influence in the dem party

And in the end most libs will shut up and go along with it

Like Dennis Hassert and Jerry Sandusky? Like those pedophiles?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

This should be interesting.

TALLAHASSEE - In a move that likely would spur a constitutional fight, Florida lawmakers appear ready to pass a proposal that would allow the death penalty for people who commit sexual battery on children under age 12.

The House is scheduled Thursday to take up its version of the bill (HB 1297), while the Senate version (SB 1342) was approved Tuesday by the Rules Committee, positioning it to go to the full Senate.

The proposal comes after decades of U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court rulings that have said it is unconstitutional to execute defendants in rape cases. A Senate staff analysis said nobody has been executed for a non-murder crime in the United States since 1964.

In a rebuke of the court precedents, the House and Senate bills say that a 1981 Florida Supreme Court case and a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case were "wrongly decided," with the Senate version saying "such cases are an egregious infringement of the state's power to punish the most heinous of crimes."

Senate bill sponsor Jonathan Martin, a Fort Myers Republican who is a former prosecutor, said the bill would create needed "constitutional boundaries by providing a sentencing procedure for those heinous crimes" that would be similar to death-penalty laws for murder.

"If an individual rapes an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, a 2-year-old or a 5-year-old, they should be subject to the death penalty," Martin said Tuesday after the Rules Committee approved his bill.

Aaron Wayt, who represented the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers at Tuesday's meeting, said people want "vengeance" when children are victims of sexual battery, but he pointed to U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the issue.

"This bill invites a longer, costlier (legal) process for the victim and their family that they will endure," Wayt said. "While this crime, anyone convicted of it is vile, heinous, the Constitution itself, the case law, the Supreme Court demands a maximum of life in prison. And so while it's not the vengeance we all want, it's the justice that the Constitution demands."

But Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, a Plantation Democrat who was sexually abused as a child, said "there is no statute of limitations" on the suffering of victims.

"This is a life sentence that is handed down to young children," Book said. "We're talking about the youngest of the young in this bill. I was one of those kids. I still to this day at ... 38 years old deal with the very, very real lasting effects of this crime. It never goes away. Sometimes you close your eyes and you see it. I don't get a chance to make it stop."

Under the bills, defendants could receive death sentences based on the recommendations of at least eight of 12 jurors. Judges would have discretion to impose the death penalty or sentence defendants to life in prison. If fewer than eight jurors recommend death, defendants would receive life sentences.

Currently, unanimous jury recommendations are required before judges can impose the death penalty in murder cases. But lawmakers also are poised to change that requirement to allow death sentences after recommendations from eight of 12 jurors. The Senate has already passed such a change, and the House will take it up Thursday.

At least in part, the Republican-controlled Legislature has been emboldened by conservative shifts in recent years on the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2020, for example, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that unanimous jury recommendations were not needed to sentence defendants to death in murder cases. That reversed a 2016 ruling that required unanimity.

Florida lawmakers pursue death penalty in child rapes

U.S. Supreme Court rulings have said it is unconstitutional to execute defendants in rape cases

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Do it. Stop pedophiles DEAD in their tracks

 

[Mac-7]

Like Dennis Hassert and Jerry Sandusky? Like those pedophiles?

You can cherry pick the news and find both republicans and democrats

But the democrat party is solidly behind legalizing pedophilia

 

[surada]

You can cherry pick the news and find both republicans and democrats

But the democrat party is solidly behind legalizing pedophilia

I'm glad you know that, but I can assure you that Democrats don't want to legalize pedophilia.

 

[BothWings]

I worked with a Russian years ago in New York. Over lunch one day he told me that pedophilia was very rare in Russia because frequently they would execute them along with the murderers. As usual throughout history, Russia beat us to the punch. That was in Soviet times or soon after.I wonder if the push of wokeness via globalism is starting to "pussify" Russia and allow Russian pedos more freedom to prey on children.