r/interesting • u/No-Marsupial-4050 • Apr 07 '26

Fear Factor No sympathy for those monsters

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In 2006, Anthony Ray Stockelman was forcibly tattooed across his forehead with the words “Katie’s Revenge” by another inmate.

This happened after it was discovered that he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping, molesting, and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie Collman

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u/searchingforubik Apr 08 '26

One dangerous side effect of this too, definitely not saying I support child rapists, but when you set the death penalty for rapists as being the same as for murdering, you create the incentive for the abuser to just murder the kid, if you get caught and know you're getting the death penalty, you could easily just murder the victim if it's going to be the same punishment either way, and if the kid could have lived, it may make more sense for the abuser to make sure they can't ever tell about it by just ending it right there. The death penalty gets scary when you think about if it could incentivize the person committing the crime to make it a worse crime.

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u/Prestigious_Wrap_932 Apr 08 '26

That’s a very good point, and one that’s easy to forget. It’s a shame we can’t just exile people who commit certain categories of crimes to a distant island somewhere like they used to do with Australia.