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If I were making the decision, I would give Sandusky the death penalty and not piddle around with the usual quarter century of appeals to carry it out. If you want others to face criminal charges, you better add Sandusky's wife. I would suggest that no one covered up what was going on more than did Mrs. Sandusky. So why shouldn't she be prosecuted?

As for the death penalty, if it applies to Penn State, it should certainly apply to the Catholic Church (By the way, I am Catholic) and to all the public school systems in which teachers, male and female, molested and abused students. Throw in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and many other unnamed entities, religious and secular. I feel sure there are many other groups who can also be encompassed in this purging of guilty institutions.

Why not just clean them all out? Penn State, the institution, is no more guilty than are many other "august" institutions.

Don't forget the private schools. I think that any school at some point has an issue with a faculty member committing child sexual abuse in some form. The problem is when it is covered up or has been swept under the rug. If there is a cover-up then the hammer should come down on that institution and the perpetrators of the cover-up. The punishment needs to be harsh and severe. Maybe not as harsh as the death penalty, but as severe as punishment for recruiting violations.