Plus - it is my feeling, my opinion that if the person who abused me was given a death sentence then I would end up feeling guilty that I reported him. While I might think, know, he was a monster, he had a family, a mother, a father, and brothers. What would they be feeling if he was put to death by the state? Plus, all the time that case would be appealed and all the surrounding publicity - no thanks. Just lock the perpetrators up - forever and ever.I do not want their punishment to be trivial - I just do not want them dead on my account.