**** that. You are just too scared to admit he deserves a death penalty for what he did.
While I am not the person you addressed: I am not afraid.
He does not deserve the death penalty for rape.
There is little doubt that his sentence was too light. Completely leaving aside the issue of the justifiability of the death penalty, the severity of the crime in question does not mean we need to go to the most extreme penalty possible as a form of punishment.
Maybe rape isn't that bad to you?
It's a very serious crime. But its not a capital offense.
Never mind that she now cannot even trust the justice system to protect her.
Justice is not simply about "doing what the victim wants."
More to the point, it is sadly true that she will have emotional issues as a result of this incident. Killing her attacker is not going to make that go away. It might not even improve her mental state.
Had someone with a gun caught him in the act and shot him dead. It would have been justified. Period.
Not necessarily, that depends a great deal on local laws and the situation.
In Turner's case, apparently two students approached him during the attack. He fled, and they apprehended him. They would not be justified using deadly force before they determined what was happening; or when he fled the scene; or while apprehending him, as he was unarmed.
More to the point, justice is not about finding excuses to ignore or skip due process and go straight to killing people. Even if it fails occasionally, and given that we know from the start that no system is perfect: We are much better off with neutral parties and a jury of peers making a determination of guilt and punishment, rather than encouraging vigilantism.
It is also quite evident that you're driven not by a rational approach to the situation, but an emotional reaction of "rape bad, therefore kill rapist." That doesn't sound like a particularly sophisticated or nuanced approach to the problems the Turner case presents.
