I'm sure this kind of crime would only get you 20 years in Europe.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/17/taped.abduction/index.html

SARASOTA, Florida (CNN) -- It took five hours of deliberation Thursday for a jury to return guilty verdicts on murder, kidnapping and sexual battery charges for Joseph Smith in the February 2004 abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.

Smith, his hair slicked back and wearing a gray suit, pursed his lips and nodded as the jury foreman read the verdicts. Now, Smith's attorney, who said he made a last-minute tactical decision to waive his right to a closing statement, must focus on saving his client from lethal injection.

Sentencing is scheduled for November 28.

The problem with American justice is that death is too good for scum like Mr. Smith. The parents should at least be allowed to administer the lethal injection.

Can anyone argue against the death penalty in this case?

I never argue against it regarding child killers.

Can anyone argue against the death penalty in this case?

I can. If the parents want to take him out I wouldn't cry one little bit. Apart from that the death penalty is always wrong. Look at it this way though: If he is sentenced to death he will be isolated from the general population and will have his own cell on death row. If he gets life without the possiblity of parole he will be in the general population and won't have his own cell, or automatic appeals. He will surely get his "due" much quicker that way then he will from the state. Jeffrey Dahmer got life in prison and was dead much quicker than if he had recieved the death penalty for example.

But it seems to me that people should get very, very long sentences the first time that they committ this kind of crime.