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Should death penalty be legal in nowadays for cruel crimes?
Today capital punishment or death penalty is legal only in a few countries. They are:China, Byelorussia, USA, Japan, South Korea, Iran and etc. In my opinion a lot of other countries ought to legalize death penalty for violent crimes and for treason. I think it is vital to show criminals that sometimes a law can be cruel to them too. Some people do really cruel crimes like pedophilia and they are not punished in a fair way. Those kind of people usually destroy a little girls lives. Consequently pedophils deserve death penalty. Then maniacs who killed more than 3 people should be punished in this way. There is statistics about pedophilia in USA:
Child Molester Statistics "The serial killer has the same personality characteristics as the sex offender against children" -Dr. Mace Knapp, Nevada State Prison Psychologist. • "There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and an estimated 80 to 100,000 of them are missing. They're supposed to be registered, but we don't know where they are and we don't know where they're living. - Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrento co-anchor Hannah Storm on The Early Show
• The most serious and chronic offenders often show signs of antisocial behavior as early as the preschool years. - (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice) • Dr. Gene Abel estimates that between 1% and 5% of our population molest children -CNN Specials Transcript #454-Thieves of Childhood.
• Nearly all the offenders in sexual assaults reported to law enforcement were male (96%). - Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• Overall, 23% of sexual assault offenders were under the 18 and 77% were adults - Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 40% of the offenders of victims under age 6 were themselves juveniles. A similar proportion (39%) of offenders of victims ages 6 through 11 were also juveniles. For older juvenile victims, the proportion of juvenile offenders dropped to 27%. - Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement, 7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice
• 29% of child sexual abuse offenders are relatives, 60% are acquaintances, and only 11% are strangers. -Diana Russell, The Secret Trauma, NY:Basic Books, 1986. • • More than 1/2 of all convicted sex offenders are sent back to prison within a year. Within 2 years, 77.9% are back. -California Department of Corrections.
• Recidivism rates range from 18-45%. The more violent the crime the more likelihood of repeating. -Studies by the state of Washington.
• 3 in 10 child victimizers reported that they had committed their crimes against multiple victims: they were more likely than those who victimized adults to have had multiple victims. -BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991. • Like rape, child molestation is one of the most underreported crimes: only 1-10% are ever disclosed. -FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. • The behavior is highly repetitive, to the point of compulsion, rather than resulting from a lack of judgment. -Dr. Ann Burges, Dr. Nicholas Groth, et al. in a study of imprisoned offenders.