with things like child molesting (sick as it may be) you will start a moral argument that they did not take a life so you cannot take theirs. If you are going to do something like this then the bar has to be set at an acceptable level to the majority. Fact is you will never please everyone with this, no matter how high some will believe capital punnishment is wrong. For things like child molestation, stealing and violant crime some argue for corpral punishment but this is met with more controvercy then capital in many cases. Personally, as i posted earlier, i disagree with killing murderers as letting them rot in a cell is a better punishment. A guilty concience is a hard thing to live with. Only time ill support corpral punishment is with sex offenders by removal of their genitaila. Simple reason for this is that thay are unlikly to reform, its like forbidding you guys from looking at and attractive woman or having sex with an attrctive woman ever again. Sexual orientation seems to be a fixed thing made worse if its forbidden. Remove the means and a sex offender cannot offend again.