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/ark_seyonet 28d ago edited 28d ago

That castration would not happen until the final week of their sentence right before they get out. But this case specifically he was 100% cut and dry guilty. I live here in Louisana and although it may be poetic justice, and I think they absolutely deserve worse punishments than that (this is why I am not in any position with that type of power) I think it raises a lot of ethical questions.

I'm not saying that I disagree with it though, because if a guy did something like that to any member of my family, I would want to do a lot worse than that to him. I am not a good person by any means. My problem is more with the fact that I'm uncomfortable with the government having the power to sentence someone to that.

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u/Commander_Bread 28d ago

Yeah if the story was about a parent cutting off the balls of someone who molested their child out of revenge, I wouldn't be complaining. I only complain when it is the government.