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

Thanks Lathyrus you expressed that much more effectively than I have been!

No I wouldn’t!

I don't agree with the death penalty however if your child has say committed a school shooting, they will more than likely commit further acts of violence, so whoever sheltered them would be partly responsible for further deaths

I hope I could if I knew my child had killed and wanted to kill.

Every life they would take would be just as precious as my child’s life.

Every grief they caused just as hard as mine.

I hope I wouldn’t be that person who believed my child’s life’s was of more importance than everyone else that they might kill.

ronib

Makes you an accessory.

And?

Galaxy

Yes good point, if you have other children and do that you are sentencing them to who knows how long without a parent.

My kids are all adults, theyd be fine
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Galaxy

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.

Really, your failing your child if you don't get them executed? I admit I'd fail my children.

Yes good point, if you have other children and do that you are sentencing them to who knows how long without a parent.

Makes you an accessory.

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.

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?

Galaxy

What on earth are you saying?

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

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

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.

Sorry that was for the worried well.

What on earth are you saying?

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.

The assassin could well be mentally ill.

Will the father claim the $100,000 reward

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

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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