Originally posted by Freedom ERP
So based on your argument, if we have a finite amount of Government spending, you would rather it was spent keeping this scum alive rather than using the money to fund social services which may prevent other small children from being murdered.

Nice attempt to take things out of context.

On the contrary, by your logic this man should be executed for a crime he committed when he was a 10-year old child, as well as for downloading child porn as an adult.

Social services have absolutely nothing to do with the issue. Those were only brought up by you as an after thought in an attempt to justify your ire. If funding social services is truly your main concern here, then I simply pointed out that there are other areas in which the UK can cut wasteful spending in order to support these services.

Decent human beings don't demand the death penalty for crimes committed by children or for adults downloading any form of porn. These are not crimes that warrant capital punishment.

Someone who committed murder when he was ten was caught downloading CP? What a surprise! lol... This is a non-story as far as Im concerned, obviously he is not same mentally as you and I. As long as he is somewhere where he cant hurt anyone (which he hasnt physically done since he was 10), then I dont care, and I certainly dont wish death upon him. According to the article he had 40 pictures so it must not have even been a hobby, because every other time I have read about a child porn case it is for hard drives full. I am certainly not defending him, I just think he is just mentally ill and not a threat to anyone. We can sit around and judge him from our moral high horses, or you can try to understand the confused mind of someone who would murder at the age of ten. I have spent a week in a mental hospital (unfortunately as a non-voluntarily patient) and I understand how even someone with a horribly warped mind is still just like you and me deep down.