should rape be made a death penalty offense ?

Question

tell me why it should or shouldn't be

thank you for your answers and to pamela m24 my deepest apology for the violence against you.

Answer 1

I say no, and I've been raped. I haven't died, I had a long battle with being violated and what was mine taken from me. It was like my body was not my own anymore. But I survived. The rapist should get the maximum allowed, and it should be stiff, and no gain time, good time taken off the sentence. It should be served one hundred percent without parole and without jail time credited to the sentence once convicted.

Answer 2

No, rape shoud not be punishable by the death sentence because of the simple traditional Criminal Justice policy that the evil of the punishment must not exceed the evil of the crime. Although many have and will argue that rape causes long term mental anguish for the victim, and in some cases, so severe that the victim commits suicide, the act itself does not deserve death because it does not cause death which is why homicide is the only crime that is punishable by death.

Many people would say that the crime is so gross and crude that the offender should be put to death, but these people dont understand the logic of crime and punishment. It has become, throughout history and experience, not legally correct or morally correct to execute someone for a rape or other serious felonies. That is why punishment remedies have been amended and changed so many times since public executions and other harsh punishments

Answer 3

No, however serial rapists have shown that if given the chance they will rape again, and again. We either must lock them up for life or execute them. Chemical castration does not seem to work (the rapist has to want to take the drugs).

I do favor the Death Penalty in some cases, but I think it needs to only be applied if it fits a higher standard. Part of that standard is the answer to the question "Will he be a continuing threat to society?" Can he ever by safely released? By this standard serial rapists should be eligible for the death penalty.

Answer 4

Firtsly, we must ask ourselves....is the death penalty right? or even ethical? By playing God we form these questions as to whether or not a person receives the death penalty for rape....NO because some people are ill and cannot digest that rape is wrong obviously and if they know it's wrong and still does it(sociopath)....then he's what? ILL ...so we should find alternative ways like institutionalizing them for the rest of their lives.... we are a wealthy country and we can afford it... well with the cost of war and gas...maybe not... back at one

P.S. Pamela you are right!!!

Answer 5

No, unless they murder someone in doing so. But I do feel that they should receive life, if there a repeated offender. I was raped as a young girl by 5 young men that I knew. They were young and stupid. Out of those guy's only one was a repeater, he got life for it. He served 20 year's. He is now an older man in his 50's. He is now out of prison, and yes I do worry about him, not with me, but the young girl's. I feel once they serve there time that they should have a permanent band put on there ankle one that can not be taken off, and that there watched like hawks, every movement they make of the day. This is done by satelite.

Answer 6

I don't know about a death sentence, I think murder's a capital crime, rape however is serious, implies that the man is unable to control himself and feels free to act his aggressions out toward women. They say rape is a control crime, where the object isn't sex but dominance. I'd put the sentence at 20 years with reparations paid by the actor to the victim for again as long...

Answer 7

Emotionally...the answer is yes.

logically...the answer is no. The law tries to follow a porportional response. To execute someone for rape equates rape with death. It tells rape victims that their lives are considered to be over. That they can never recover.
While rape is a horrible, traumatic experience, it does not mean that the victim's life is over. Consequently, the punishment should not be the loss of life.

Answer 8

Yes because rape permanently damages people's lives. It's not fair that a person who is raped has suffer for the rest of their lives, and that their life will never be the same, while the person the raped them gets their life back in a matter of years, and will probbaly victimize others. How is that fair??

Answer 9

It's tempting. The problem, I think, is that a fair number of women would then decide not to report their rape because they didn't feel the perpetrator deserved death. Thus, we might end up with more people getting away with it.

Best wishes and God bless.

Answer 10

No, for various motives. the first is that a rapist dealing with the shortcoming of existence penalty is way less in all chance to leave the sufferer alive. 2d: The trauma for the sufferer is wide. very usually, the rapist is a chum. evaluate the further trauma for a baby who believes he has contributed to the shortcoming of existence of an uncle, verify... 0.33: The record of circumstances of kid molestation are finished of those the position the baby became wrongly persuaded to assert he became molested or pronounced the incorrect individual. Even in circumstances of the rape of an individual, victims have pronounced the incorrect individual.