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I loath kiddie fiddlers more than just about anything else in the known universe and the idea of killing a child pervert fills me with deep joy. However, it is just "the idea" of it that I relish. I actually feel pretty uncomfortable with the "reality" of it. After all, it stinks of Sharia Law to commit such brutal acts against criminals (beheading, breaking limbs for shoplifting, that sort of thing) and when asked most UK folk are against Sharia Law... but they do seem to make a few exceptions. I have seen a few of the Internet videos of Islamic executions and they are really terrible things to behold, even when you know the person being tortured / beheaded / shot is the worst kind of criminal, seeing him killed in such a way does little to satisfy you. I imagine that if you are a victim of a terrible crime and you see the perpetrator executed, it does very little to imbue a sense of "justice". In fact it probably just amplifies the trauma.
This is quite possibly the most difficult dilemma to answer. On the one hand, pedophiles are the crap of the world, they deserve nothing but the worst that life can put upon them, and many of us feel very cheated that they get to spend their lives either protected by do-gooders or watchign free cable TV all day in a warm cell at our expense. Death is surely a desirable option. On the other hand, do we actually want to reduce ourselves to their level by committing what amounts to an act of "revenge" rather than "justice"? I'm not sure that death sentences in the name of state justice are essentially good for the society that permits them.
I respond like most people do, my knee-jerk reaction is usually highly emotive and I cry "kill the evil b****rds!". This topic has really made me think though. I am looking forward to the Execution of Gary Glitter on Channel 4 next week which should spark some very interesting and lively debate about this very topic.
