Palm Beach County Clerk of Court Michael Caruso, a former Republican state legislator who previously backed the death penalty for adults convicted of sexually battering children under 12, was arrested Tuesday on five felony child sex abuse charges.
The 67-year-old married father of seven, who was appointed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, faces five felony counts: kidnapping, child molestation, lewd exhibition, luring or enticing a child and child abuse causing mental injury, an arrest affidavit shows.
Investigators in Florida say Caruso violated a child—who is a relative—and allege the abuse occurred multiple times from fall 2024 to August 2025, including on a family cruise, a fishing outing and during a Thanksgiving gathering. The child has been receiving therapeutic services since April 2026, according to the police affidavit.
Its always the ones you most suspect.
I am against the death penalty, but people like this make me want to make special exceptions. Like, only people who publicly call for death sentences for certain crimes, and then go on to commit those crimes. But if I went that far, then I might say that only people who support the death penalty shall be eligible for the death penalty. It’s a slippery slope, really. So, I just have to go back to opposing the death penalty, generally.
A common misbelief about anarchism is that it opposes rules. It doesn’t oppose rules though, but rulers. Those who wish to make rules for others.
If this were an anarchist world, which it should be, it would be perfectly fine to create rules for yourself and consensually with others.
Therefore, if he, and the others supporting the death penalty for this crime, choose to apply that standard to themselves then they should face the death penalty. That doesn’t mean that punishment therefore applies to everybody else though.
Your logic is fine, no slippery slope.
On a less related note, here’s my favourite video debunking the efficacy of the death penalty: https://youtu.be/_DrsVhzbLzU
Fuck that, if you call for death, you must be willing to die, no slippery slope.
Well, you don’t have to give government the authority to murder to sentence this jackass to be incarcerated in general population, as another commenter pointed out.
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