Uncle Kenny's dungeon inspires crackdown

[William769]

State pushes execution for repeat rapists of children

HARTSVILLE, South Carolina (AP) -- Neighborhood teenagers called him Uncle Kenny, the wiry man whose trailer sat on a junk-strewn lot behind thick pines and a "No Trespassing" sign where the paved road turns to dirt.

Kenneth Glenn Hinson, 47, had no children but seemed to treat his neighbors' kids as if they were his own. He would pile them into his pickup truck for weekend outings at Johnson Lake and roast marshmallows with them during sleepovers at his home.

"My kids stayed down there, camped down there with him and cooked down there with him," said Donna McGee, who knew Hinson for four years. "Nobody ever suspected anything."

They didn't know that Hinson had spent nine years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl in 1991. Or that 15 years later, he would be charged with another crime so outrageous that South Carolina lawmakers would test the constitutional limits of the death penalty by proposing the execution of repeat child rapists.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/20/child.rapists.ap/index.html

[MadMaddie]

1. The guy deserves to rot in jail and perform hard labor for the

rest of his life....

these are horrible crimes but to use the death penalty will not deter other pedophiles to stop their crimes....they are alreay devious they will become more stealth and committ more murders not to be found out..

This is bad precedent....