I think State Senator Larry McKibben is ascribing a little too much rationality to sex offenders when he says, "[i]f you kidnap someone or rape someone, either one of those is life in prison without the possibility of parole. What is the next logical step move for the kidnapper and rapist to do? Simply murder the victim." Generally, I would only worry about someone taking the next logical step if they were prone to taking the first logical step, which is don't kidnap or rape someone. Apparently McKibben was once a reasonable person, as he was anti-death penalty before it became politically expedient to support it. ...