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Perna: I also don't think anyone is suggesting this is practical or doable or even a good idea; it's just a spur-of-the-moment "wish" thing, an imaginative fantasy.

That was my sense of the thread as well. People are venting the extent of their rage and pain as well as their desire to prevent others from going through whatever they did.

Should the death penalty for sexual abuse ever become a reality, I think Pita expressed a very good point on page 1:
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.

I don't think most people want to feel responsible for the death of another human being, although if their abuser was to accidentally drive off the edge of a cliff... they might find a sense of relief in the knowledge that he or she was gone and could never hurt anyone else again.