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

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rafichagran Fri 12-Sept-25 17:12:58

I have just been reading a discussion on mumsnet about this and there are some strong opinions.
This discussion is in connection to the Charlie Kirk murder. I would not, I don't believe in state sanctioned murder, I could not send him to his death, and watch as they allow relatives to do in the states that have capital punishment on America, Utah does. Also emotion comes into it, it is my child.

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 18:03:34

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

LizzieDrip Fri 12-Sept-25 18:02:19

No I wouldn’t!

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 18:00:13

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

Lathyrus3 Fri 12-Sept-25 18:00:09

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.

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:57:56

ronib

Makes you an accessory.

And?

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:57:26

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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theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:56:38

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.

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 17:56:04

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

ronib Fri 12-Sept-25 17:54:38

Makes you an accessory.

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 17:54:36

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.

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:52:01

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?

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:50:32

Galaxy

What on earth are you saying?

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

eazybee Fri 12-Sept-25 17:46:55

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

Doodledog Fri 12-Sept-25 17:45:42

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.

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 17:45:40

Sorry that was for the worried well.

Galaxy Fri 12-Sept-25 17:44:28

What on earth are you saying?

Babs03 Fri 12-Sept-25 17:43:24

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.

ronib Fri 12-Sept-25 17:42:54

The assassin could well be mentally ill.

OldFrill Fri 12-Sept-25 17:40:44

Will the father claim the $100,000 reward

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:36:36

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

woodenspoon Fri 12-Sept-25 17:34:27

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.

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:33:52

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.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Fri 12-Sept-25 17:33:31

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 …

woodenspoon Fri 12-Sept-25 17:33:14

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.

theworriedwell Fri 12-Sept-25 17:32:07

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