“Why keep a 400 pound child molester alive?”
I suspect that The Founders felt that, regular as a pendulum, bad people would occupy high government positions and would use those positions to prosecute and execute political enemies. To prevent that from happening they had to protect everyone from execution, not just those who might become the enemy of some high political figure. Thus, we have useless oxygen users rotting in prison at great public expense. But we pay for that to protect those of us who might otherwise be persecuted by the very organs that would kill those same oxygen thieves.
It looks as if The Founders did believe in executions, but the crime had to be enormous in their view and very narrow in scope. I don’t think this type of crime was ever mentioned in their time period and must not have been widely known; probably because certain things were not discussed in “proper” society.
Adding to the executable crimes in today’s society probably can’t happen. It’s just not politically viable.
I think child molestation should be a death penalty offense.
One appeal and then shove a cue ball up his a$$, lock the offender in a cage with 10 of the most violent offenders.
Whoever gets the cue ball gets to have 4 stars meals everyday, a 72” smart TV and a streaming subscription in his furnished, private cell, for the rest of his sentence.
Rinse and repeat until the sentence is carried to completion.