why the death penalty should be brought back, page-58

The US based innocence project has a list of prisoners it has exonerated, some from death row. We do not need to bring the barbarity of the death penalty to Australia and start executing innocent men.

Even with a death penalty in Australia, it would not apply in this case as the child was not murdered. This is why the death penalty usually only applies to capital offences - proportionality stops some criminals from the final step of murdering their victim.