Citing the case of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, who was spared execution last year after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on capital punishment, DeSantis said that only the vast majority or a supermajority of a jury should be required to issue a death sentence.
DeSantis, at the Miami Police Benevolent Association, said:
"One juror should not be able to veto that. I don't think justice was served in that case. If you're going to have capital [punishment], you have to administer it to the worst of the worst crimes."
Several family members of the 17 victims of the Parkland shooting spoke out against the jury's decision. Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter was murdered by Cruz, said he was "disgusted with those jurors" and "disgusted with this system."
"What do we have the death penalty for? What is the purpose of it?" Alhadeff said after Cruz received life in prison.
DeSantis also said he wants to make convicted child rapists eligible for the death penalty and require them to serve a minimum sentence of life in prison.
There are currently 301 prisoners on death row in Florida, which has executed 99 inmates since 1976, according to the state's Department of Corrections.
DeSantis also proposed harsher punishments for fentanyl trafficking when the drug resembles a piece of candy; strengthening bail laws by limiting who is eligible for release before their first appearance; and requiring police to alert the National Missing and Unidentified Person's System about all missing persons.
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Castration and torture is what they deserve.
However this may be a problem watch video 1 & 2
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However, all of that is logic. Once the truth is known, logic is no longer as necessary, and all that does matter would be our feelings about right and wrong. So, whenever it is true that they are rapists, then give them the death penalty.
And if people traumatize others into being evil while they're alive, why not have fewer perpetrators living?
God made our soul indestructible and always capable of redemption - as is God’s wish.
I know my beliefs differ from others, so I’m ok with whatever you believe.
There is also a selfish feeling on my part that, if they ever redeem themselves, it would be undeserved. I would need millennia to forget that these were rapists, for instance, and their victims may need billions of years more, unless the perpetrators do something surprising, which no one ever can.
God’s Laws (like karma) are working perfectly all the time both here and in the spirit world. I think that is why I am at peace with it all. I know they will get what they deserve. I don’t have to worry about it. In fact it’s not my job.
Repentance is the fast track but most take the slow lane and suffer hell for hundreds or thousands of years while the laws of compensation grind away. They have to feel every pain they have caused another. Again I trust God to mete what they deserve.
For someone like Bill Gates for example, how much is his fathers fault? I don’t know but God does. Again it takes faith that God knows best. ❤️
The last is hard to contemplate, and may be the crux of the debate, but I hadn't arrived at it. How much is it really their choice, but then, don't we always act 'as if' it's their choice anyway? If we are incapable of exorcising their demons, or of restoring areas of the brain, or of activating beneficial genes (scary prospect, actually), or of changing their drive to commit some almost unforgivably evil act, then there's nothing else to do but to take matters into our own hands a little. But another argument is that we're not actually capable of that either. They have the power.
Oh wells
In the case of that biblical story, a woman was being accused of adultery: its possible her husband had ignored her, abandoned her, deprived her of loving affection due to religious fanaticism... maybe the husband thought himself to be “more loyal” than her, practically inspiring her to cheat on him... in that sense, all of the religious zealots who lined up to stone her, probably did have something to do with her crime, stifling and filling her environment with so much religious dogma and blindness, that her very spirit made the programmed mechanical leap for freedom... by committing adultery... What we would call “programmed response”...
In the case of child rapists, I don't recall one ever being presented to Jesus; but if there ever was, I doubt he would have even made it alive to the master's feet, he probably would have been stoned on the spot, without trail nor unanimous jury... and probably those who would not have been in the unanimous vote, probably would have been killed along with him (not to justify such a blind herd response, but to outline it).
At the end of the day, DeSantis' remedy is just the same old religious fanaticism, rebottled, rebranded, and re-sold as something new... “Be fearful!” : that was the religious preventative to stop people from committing crimes... to be fearful of “the other world”... When that formula began running dry, they just transposed the same remedy, but rather than fearing “the other world”, it just became “fear the world”
Whether the red tape will actually get extended all around DeSantis' words and proposals is highly debatable.
I would stand up and wish to be counted as a Christian if God called out the register... Even then, if all the child rapists on Earth were lined up waiting to be executed, with too many wannabe Mahatma Gandhis not wishing to “show violence” against these living-breathing-pulsating-walking filthy manifestations of human violence, and some one had to do the job ( if I actually thought that killing them would actually make a difference ) then I would step forward and be willing to carry the can... IF that meant that Planet Earth could actually shake off its parasitic plague, and that humanity could begin to evolve and get well again, then I would personally do it... Lots of souls tormenting me from the otherworld? Perhaps... But, if that meant that Our Home was free from its satanic illness, then I consider it a fair bargain, and I would take the spiritual blame, if that meant that the world would be free from this plague...
But, I genuinely don't believe that that kind of killing will actually improve the world. It is, after all, just another programmed response (both paedophilia, as well as hatred still towards paedophilia).
I knew someone who was a paedophile (I didn't know that at the time of knowing him)... I found out that he had been raped by his dad... who had been raped by his dad... and so on and so on... I was young in a music band, and he was an “old friend”, who had connections with the music industry, as well as many other industries... Years later, I found out what his real intentions were... I rejected him for years, and thought that I would never speak to him if I was to see him again... Thinking about it now, I now would wish to meet him again, not to vent anger or hatred, but to grab him by his sick brain and to shake some sense into him: “What nest of cockroaches have you let enter your mind? You retarded donkey!”
I think an appropriate punishment would be to get paedophiles to perpetually sit in the corner with the dunse hat, as a minimum life sentence... Don't put them in hiding, don't change their names, or hide their identity, nor kill them in order to hide them, but to publicly humiliate them until bitter tears of remorse flow from their eyes (and even then, not all people cry their bitter tears through public humiliation... perhaps a lot of paedophiles cry from the lack of it?)
If we can get at least ONE paedophile to repent, who could imagine the sound of the angelic chorus!... Sadly, the whole religious-modern “be fearful” remedy, as well as constant promises of a mob death, kind of OBLIGES the paedophiles to think about anything else, but repentance.
These impulses are going to keep on growing, “When it rains, it rains on everyone”, and I would even bet (even as someone who is against gambling, but this is a sure winner) that if all the paedophiles were to be killed by a pitch-fork mob, the very members of the pitch-fork mob would either be tormented by thoughts of paedophilia (after all, a lot of perverted souls are now weighing on them), or even be obliged to be paedophiles in the next life.
Joyly Paedophilia is an infernal crime (meaning, originating in the infernos), and the legions of demons of paedophilia have their headquarters, so to speak... Killing all paedophiles would not mean that our dream world or thought world would be over-run by paeophiles (unless, you were the one killing them, in which case you would have some direct soul-physical-experience connection with them), upon dying, those spirits would be sent back to their demonic headquarters, which many occultists say is under the command of the demoness Lillith (yes, a female demon, and she even has a high-level job... equality seems to be preached even in hell!) In hell, our consciousness could only have a connection with those entities if we “open the door” to them, and the demons try to make us open that door by making us “obsessed”... For instance, it could even happen that folks get obsessed with the terribleness of paedophilia... and little by little, end up opening the door to those same entities, through that obsession (which is why “killing the paedophiles” is doomed to fail).
The Earth is going through a big purification... But from where? The Earth has layers and layers, dimensions and levels to its existence, and currently, the “underworld”, or the hell region of the Earth is filled to the brim with such evil entities... The only way to purify the planet, is to bring those entities out from hiding and into the light (as in, the light of the physical world, to let them walk around with physical bodies)...
Let the paedophiles be free? Let them roam the Earth? Let them sit on thrones and award themselves with badges and medals? If that means such entities are being drained from the innards and entrails of the Earth's lower dimensions, and waiting to be expelled into some Black Hole or sucked up by some passing comet, then for my part, I say let's leave them to their party... no punishment that human beings could invent could torment them as effectively as God's torment. Let them be kings for a day...
I lived near Parkland at the time of the Parkland shooting. I watched many interviews and saw many videos. I heard that there was an "emergency" exercise going on at the time of the shootings. I saw the interview with the teacher who looked out the door and was grazed by a shot to the arm. She saw a swat team dressed individual shooting. I heard that Cruz arrived at the school 2 minutes before the shooting dressed in his red shiirt and carrying a duffle bag apparently of "assault rifles". Because of the school "emergency" exercise the gate was open and he could walk in, where in 2 minutes he was dressed in his "swat team" gear and shooting. Then there was the interview with the girl who said she walked out of the school with Cruz in his red shirt.
This led to many questions. Where is the swat team uniform? Where did it come from? Where did it go? Why was the PR "gun control" so smoothly started up with Hogg the son of the FBI agent? When Cruz was brought to the media admitting his "shooting", why did he appear drugged and out of it? Why did students report many shooters? Why did the Broward county sheriff state that the school building would be torn down to remove painful memories when the building would give the forensic means of identifying multiple shooters?
My conclusion, was the Parkland shooting was a staged false flag. Cruz was the "lone gunman" patsy. The shooters were dressed in swat uniforms because they were swat police. False flags usually have an "emergency exercise" connected, because it gives cover. For example, there was a 9/11 airplane terrorist exercise occurring at the same time. What was the intent of the Parkland shooting? Based on the smooth sailing PR campaign that followed, it was getting AR-15 styled rifles removed from the people. It was successful in Australia with the Christchurch false flag.