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seamusTX wrote:SCOTUS ruled out capital punishment for rape a while back.

I honestly think there is no practical rehabilitation for people like this. They re-offend at the first opportunity. Probably they hate themselves, the way most addicts and obsessive-compulsives do.

At best they will be put out of their misery when they cross the wrong guy in prison.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:Probably you are right, and I was confused by the antecedent of "his sister."

This article definitely states that the rape victim was a relative:

On the same day that the burning car was found, crimes-against-children investigators obtained an arrest warrant against Gilbert alleging sexual assault of a child under 17, stemming from claims that he had molested a teenage relative over the past several months.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/04/07 ... death.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It doesn't matter whom he raped. It's a moral outrage in any case. Rape is never excusable or justifiable.

- Jim