If the Death Penalty is re-introduced - for any offence - we will have regressed as a nation. Murder is murder, no matter who carries out the act of killing, and murder by the State is just as depraved as any other killing of a human being.

Also, children who are abused are themselves already at risk of being murdered by their abuser(s), and the likelihood of them being killed in order for the abusers' identity to be protected would increase....IMHO, dramatically.

Overall, it's a crap idea. Banging the bastards up for the rest of their shitty lives is the best way to protect our children.

IMHO, YMMV.