Would you turn your child in if they face the death penalty

I think it would depend on the crime/s they had committed.

If they were premeditated, murder/s, mass shooting, torture I think I would have to.

No I wouldn't. I don't agree with the death penalty so not sure if I'd turn anyone in.

Not in a million years

theworriedwell

No I wouldn't. I don't agree with the death penalty so not sure if I'd turn anyone in.

I do not agree with the death penalty however, I couldn’t live with myself if they went on to kill again due to my silence…

But the risk is that they cause more deaths. So people would die because you hadn't done that.

The problem is if I turn them in and they are executed I couldn't live with that either. They will get executed, they might kill again so on balance I don't think I could.

The father is a Republican and a police man. ??

I find the idea of state execution horrific, to me it is cold blooded murder.

Impossible to say unless you’re placed in that position. I can’t imagine what the father is going through having done it. He did the right thing of course.

Awful to contemplate isn’t it? But as a family you’d have to, surely? How could a family keep such a heinous act between themselves and ever hope to live a normal life. And what if similar occurred a second time? You’d never forgive yourself.
Fortunately this is all academic …

ronib

The father is a Republican and a police man. ??

So his politics and career are more important than his son? Wonder what made his son turn out the way he did.

theworriedwell

ronib

The father is a Republican and a police man. ??

So his politics and career are more important than his son? Wonder what made his son turn out the way he did.

What a thing to say. How can you possibly know that.

Well his son wasn't top of the agenda was he.

Will the father claim the $100,000 reward

The assassin could well be mentally ill.

I couldn’t do it because I don’t support state sanctioned killing. But not sure how I would deal with an AC who might have committed something heinous.
Perhaps I would take my AC to a country with no extradition treaty with the US and no death penalty then turn my child in to the authorities.
Is hard.

What on earth are you saying?

Sorry that was for the worried well.

No, I wouldn't.

Apart from not approving of the death penalty, as a mother I just couldn't do that.

What I would do about it, I just don't know, thank goodness. What a terrible position to be in.

I wondered about that.
I don't think I could.

Galaxy

What on earth are you saying?

I'm saying I wouldn't turn anyone in if I thought they'd be executed.

Babs03

I couldn’t do it because I don’t support state sanctioned killing. But not sure how I would deal with an AC who might have committed something heinous.
Perhaps I would take my AC to a country with no extradition treaty with the US and no death penalty then turn my child in to the authorities.
Is hard.

Do you think you'd tell them or would you have to trick them?

But you said the son obviously wasn't the top of his agenda. I don't know what that means.
It is the wrong thing to do not to turn a child in if they commit a hideous crime. Putting morality aside, it is failing the child.

Makes you an accessory.