The following report is by News 4 Jax:
A number of new laws are now in effect, as of Sunday. Arguably the most controversial centers around changes to Florida’s death penalty. Child rapists can now face execution for their crimes.
The law specifically pertains to child victims under the age of 12. Higher courts have already said imposing death sentences in these types of cases is a violation of the 8th Amendment. While some say the law is still a measure of protecting children, others say different.
Florida courts now have a green light to send child rapists to death row. It was a measure that received bipartisan support as it rose through Tallahassee.
Upon signing it into law, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said:
These are really the worst of the worst. The perpetrators of these crimes are often serial offenders.
Maria DeLiberato is the executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. She does not disagree.
Of course, Child sexual battery is one of the most horrific crimes that one can think of.
Said Mario DeLiberato, Executive Director, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
DeLiberato, an attorney herself, explains even though the law is now technically in effect in Florida, the Supreme Court would first have to reverse its initial ruling for it to apply to a particular case.
The legislature, to their credit, acknowledged that when they passed it right, they said, ‘we know this isn’t the law, we just hope the law will get change.’
Said DeLiberato.
DeLiberato says the trauma doesn’t end there for the victim.
You’re also dealing with a living victim who would have to be a part of the inevitable decades-long death penalty process. A death penalty case is not quick. It doesn’t go away quickly. It languishes for years and years and years.
Said DeLiberato.
DeLiberato also points to alarming statistics. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
About 90 percent of child sex abuse victims know their abuser and about 30 percent of children are abused by family members.
So now, you’ve got this whole dynamic where a child is going to bear the weight of a possible death sentence to a neighbor, an uncle, grandfather, something that someone that they know that everybody in their family is not going to feel the exact same way about.
Said DeLiberato.
This new law would still require an 8 to 4 jury recommendation for a death sentence.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! [2] It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Luke 17:1-2
The fact that this is not obligatory in all 50 states is truly ridiculous. The removal of the death sentence for most crimes in this country only emboldened criminality in this country, unsurprisingly.
To say this is an infringement of Amendment VIII is not true. It states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” The amendment does not ban execution and death sentences, just inhumane torture and turning convicts into lab rats. Death sentences happened in abundance when the Bill of Rights were written.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I hope Ron DeSantis is a minister of God or he might be like Bryan said in his sermon “God’s Satanic Servants” a wicked man who is being used by God to bring judgment upon wicked people.
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
I would not trust DeSantis. I would go with the latter of Bryan’s assessment. Check out my articles on him:
https://winepressnews.com/2021/06/23/florida-governor-ron-desantis-passes-law-that-allows-forcible-vaccination-by-any-means-necessary/
https://winepressnews.com/?s=desantis+
A tiny bit of good news, not much of that nowadays.
Anyone man or woman that harms a child, physical verbal or sexual especially sexual, God is going to damn them to Hell! They’re going to burn like kerosine soaked matches in a BBQ grill as they cry out for water and won’t even get a drop of it!
America is guilty of child abuse and child sex abuse as well as abortion, and what God has planned for America for those evils among many is going to be nightmarish and vicious!
Amen
Wow, I have to agree Ron DeSantis is a very wicked man.
Ron DeSantis is just another controlled opposition puppet just like Trump, they are servants of the pope and the jesuits with Trump being a Jesuit himself and the same goes for the left.
God can and does use wicked men for His bidding, that is what Satan does, he takes his orders from God.
All people in gov; be it state, fed or local are NOT Bible-Believing Christians. Most if not all; are connected to the pope and the Roman Catholic church
Good news! The wages of sin is death, especially that kind of horrible sin!
Amen infinity to that. When a child abuser is caught, he or she is turned into dog food!
Yep I agree, I’m in the middle of reading the Franklin cover-up by John W. DeCamp and the poor children that he writes about in that book is horrific may God judge those basters who lay hands on those sweet children, I know he will and I can’t wat to see that day.
Slippery slope. Florida family courts are wicked, give kids to their abusive parent and strip from protective. Florida is full of court whore ‘experts’ who get this accomplished.
Now we are going to possibly an innocent person to death sentence without any witness to a crime, and quite possibly without even forensic evidence of a rape. I definitely see this happening there. And you guys are cheering for it.