Should child rapist get death penalty?

# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.

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# The sexual violation of immature young children by predatory adults is extremely great due to the recognition that these offenders target and harm the most vulnerable members of our society.

# The death penalty, which is unique in its severity and irrevocability, is an excessive penalty for the rapist who, as such, does not take human life.

# Child advocacy experts fear a decline in the reporting of sexual assaults by family members, or even an incentive for the rapist to kill the victim if death penalty is made the norm.