There are just some cases that really make me question my opposition to the death penalty...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nypd-suspect-custody-vicious-central-park-rape-73-year-old-woman-article-1.1158377

A career criminal was arrested Thursday for the rape of a 73-year-old birdwatcher in Central Park after being nabbed by eagle-eyed cops.
The elderly victim picked David Albert Mitchell, 42, out of a lineup a day after he dragged her into the brush and brutalized her in broad daylight, police said.
He was also caught with the memory card from the woman’s camera — which he robbed after leaving her battered in some mulch, police said.
Mitchell has a long, disturbing rap sheet that includes a decade in prison for a violent robbery in West Virginia and another eight years for kidnapping in Virginia.

[Nevernose]

1. I will see you, and raise you:

Philadelphia Rapist Allegedly Told Victim: 'Ha-Ha, I Just Gave You HIV'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/philadelphia-rapist-ha-ha-i-gave-you-hiv_n_1877426.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

And:
Dad Throws Toddler BACK in Flames After Mom Rescues
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/armin-wand-fire-kill-family_n_1876882.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

It's a sick fucking world we live in.

[Nye Bevan]

2. I'm OK with the guy rotting in a cell for the rest of his life,

serving life without the possibility of parole. "Life without parole" is actually "death in prison".

[Blecht]

3. Nothing could make me support giving government the OK to murder its citizens

But I think I would have a hard time holding myself back if I ever encountered the people mentioned in the OP and the responses -- it is a sick world.

[musiclawyer]

4. The death penalty results in too many innocent people being killed by the state

And it will continue. One cannot refute the data. Hence I will not support the death penalty even for Charles Manson types. What I do propose is life without parol( death in prison) in special cheap to run prisons just for murderers that barely pass scrutiny for cruel and unusual. Sorry I believe we need to have something that exists between Pelican Bay and Papillon. It should not have to be one or the other.

[HopeHoops]

5. Sometimes living is a worse penalty than death.

[undeterred]

6. Setting the couch on fire while your son is asleep on it.

Locking your other two sons in the bedroom so they can't get out when you've set the house on fire.

Attempting to put your two your old daughter back in a burning house after your wife rescued her.

These guys belong in the hottest part of hell. Right now.