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Death Penalty for Sex Offenders Nothing nauseates me more than a sexual predator against children, such as the alleged murder of nine-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford by a registered sex offender in Florida. Two reasons this makes me ill, one is obvious, one may surprise you. First, sex crimes against children are among the most heinous. There certainly could be a legitimate argument made that the death penalty is designed and needed for this type of criminal. When I first saw photos of Jessica Marie Lunsford, and heard the story, I presumed the father and/or the grandparents were likely involved. I don't have the statistics to back it up, but it's safe to say that a vast majority of child abductions and child killings are perpetrated by family members. Maybe I've watched too many episodes of Law and Order, but the cops always seem to look close to home first. Jessica's father, Mark, and her mother seemed to have fairly substantial alibis. He was spending the night with a girlfriend or something, and her mother was living somewhere in the North. The grandmother was given a lie detector test, and results were "cause for concern". An old lady whose granddaughter had been abducted while in her care certainly had reason to feel anxious and nervous. Weeks go by until we learn that she was indeed abducted, raped, and murdered, likely by a registered sex offender, John Evander Couey, who was living a few hundred yards away.
"I just want him to die," Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, said of John Evander Couey on CNN's Larry King Live. "If you commit a heinous crime against a child you should receive the death penalty," Lunsford said. Lunsford, Jessica's father, said he felt guilty that he was not at home that night. "We have to save our children from people like this," Lunsford said. "It's time to change some of our laws." Lunsford said he will campaign to get stricter penalties and laws regarding registering sex offenders. Lunsford added that not everyone has a computer to look up list of offenders and the lists should be readily available for all to see. "They should be tagged, they should be branded," Lunsford said of sex offenders.
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