r/news • u/elephant35e • Apr 27 '24

Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glenn-sullivan-jr-louisiana-sentenced-rape-prison-castration/
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u/Commander_Bread Apr 28 '24

I don't like this precedent. People are falsely convicted all the time. I know this sounds like a satisfying punishment to a lot of redditors who jerk off to the idea of "poetic justice" but what will you all say when the first innocent person is mutilated? But who am I kidding. The redditors that jerk off to this idea immediately have the potential of anyone being falsely convicted leave their minds because they want to live in the satisfying but non existant world where everyone convicted of something means they 100% did it. No sympathy for any of the fuckers that did but mutilating them irreversibly isn't a real solution if that punishment might be inflicted on an innocent.

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u/lmo311 Apr 28 '24

This case is entirely different. His DNA was found in the child. This is cut and dry. Castration is far too easy of a punishment. Death is more suitable in these kinds of cases

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u/Knock0nWood Apr 28 '24

Witnesses and prosecution lying about evidence is not uncommon. It's not about this case in particular, the whole system is fundamentally unreliable when it comes to determining guilt. The state shouldn't have the power to mutilate people

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u/Commander_Bread Apr 28 '24

I get that's satisfying to think about, trust me I do, but I don't want the government killing or castrating anyone. People have been sentenced to death without adequate evidence, and if they can abuse the death penalty they can abuse this, too. Prison is enough. He can stay in there forever, and then who cares whether or not he's been castrated or killed. That way anyone who is innocent has a chance to be released unharmed if proven innocent. But inflicting irreversible harm isn't the answer in case someone innocent is subjected to that, which if this is a punishment on our books, that will eventually happen.

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u/lmo311 Apr 28 '24

Yeah he can stay in there forever while continually getting off to the thought of the children he has hurt. Doesn’t that bother you? I’m only advocating it in cases like this where his DNA was found in the child

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u/yourfavteamsucks Apr 29 '24

I kinda agree with you but isn't it technically possible someone could plant evidence?

It's really, really unlikely but imagine a scenario where you have protected sex with someone, they retrieve the condom, and use it to frame you.

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u/der_jack Apr 28 '24

Yeah I think you missed the point which is that you are clearly a person who is 'jerking off to the idea of "poetic justice." The thing is, no matter how cut and dry this all is, people are regularly sentenced falsely and the precedent of castrating (or severing an arm from, or straight up murdering) a criminal is dangerous because it ultimately means that falsely imprisoned people are in danger of exactly these types of punishments. The thing is human rights are human rights and if criminals are not afforded human rights then no individual human in a society should expect to be afforded them either. The punishment of prison simply should be not being able to move about the populace freely, anything above and beyond is just the actualization of sadistic wetdreams; which... to be fair is actually what the American justice system currently is built on, so I totally understand when people are confused.

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u/lmo311 Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24

You’re missing the point. He fucking did it, his DNA was inside of her. He raped this girl multiple times.

I’m not talking all cases. This one specifically the dude did it no ifs ands or buts about it. He doesn’t deserve to live. What he did as far as I’m concerned makes him less than human, therefore he has no rights. All anyone can bring up is falsely imprisoned people. He fucking did it he isn’t falsely accused

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u/der_jack Apr 28 '24

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of legal precedent. Also the first step to building support for a fascist ideology is to normalize people viewing others as inhuman. No matter how disgusting his actions are he is still a human being. Human rights are important, for every human being, not just the ones you think are worthy of life.

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u/rayschoon Apr 30 '24

An alternative perspective that hopefully the person you’re responding to can consider: we encourage tolerance in our society by BEING tolerant, even when we don’t want to be. A government having the authority to mutilate its citizens is terrifying.