Child rape suspect bonds out of jail

Why is it okay for him to go free? Because they don't think he'll do it again. Well, great. In other news, the 11-year-old girl this cretin raped and impregnated is also mentally disabled! Terrific! Also, politics is getting involved:

Marshall's arrest prompted Gov. Don Siegelman to contact the Mobile Register on Friday, calling for legislation allowing juries the option of choosing the death penalty for repeated sex crimes against children.

Siegelman also said he supports mandatory chemical castration or voluntary full castration for repeat sex offenders.

A spokesman for Rep. Bob Riley, R-Ashland, Siegelman's opponent in the race for governor, said Friday that the congressman also supports the death penalty for repeated sex offenses against children.

"But none of this sissy lethal injection. I think we should go for hanging, drawing, and quartering them. And for castration, we should use nutcrackers."

I'm pretty sure that the courts wouldn't allow the death penalty for this. I personally think someone who rapes a child -- or an adult -- deserves to die, though I understand the arguments against it. And full castration seems a pretty clear case of cruel & unusual punishment.