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Why death penalty should not be given to rapist?

If a rapist is just given a minor punishment will it not encourage others to commit the same crime again since the punishment is simple or bearable? Whereas for the victim, it is something which is unbearable and unacceptable.

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  • 8 years ago
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    If a rapist thinks he could be executed, its more likely he'll kill the main witness against him, namely the victim.

  • 8 years ago

    if you have discovered a surefire way to separate real rape and fabricated rape case, then you can start on thinking the most gruesome punishment for rapists. until that time, we must keep considering the possibility of wrong convictions. right now, a case can be built by only a woman's say so. this is the problem with rape cases. most of the time, the intercourse was consensual, but because perhaps the woman wants to achieve something (blackmail or extortion), they decide to become the woman who cried wolf, whooops... I mean "the woman who cried rape". and even if it's real rape, it's known to happen quite frequently where the woman misidentifies the rapist, thus convicting the wrong man.

  • 8 years ago

    well depending on how damaged the victim was and how the victim dicided depends on some of the rapists time. in some od cases such as this there is times where something comes up and some of the jail time gets dropped

  • 8 years ago

    The penalty for rape should be that the rapist gets raped by a guy who looks like this :

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    On a daily basis, while in prison, for several years

  • Dopler
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The death penalty is NOT a deterrent to crime. This has been demonstrated in every place where the death penalty is still used.

  • Jenny
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The big issue is if rapists get the death penalty, there will be no incentive for a rapist to not kill.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Rape is a extreme crime yet society, in maximum cases, does not see it as equated with taking the existence of the criminal. an prolonged detention center sentence is what maximum of society proscribes for this terrible crime. in one case, a rape became into considered worth of the loss of existence penalty. The sufferer became right into a nun. The criminal became into named Caryl Chessman and after some years of appeals, he became into accomplished. This became right into a California case. at the same time as in penal complex, he wrote a e book that became a suited broker: "cellular 2455 loss of existence Row."

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    cause they haven't killed someone but they should get a hefty prison sentence, I don't like how a small time drug dealer would get more prison time than a child rapist

  • Tony
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Rapists should be castrated. I don't know if it would be a deterrent, but you wouldn't have any repeat offenders.

  • 8 years ago

    I personally would cut his balls. Having to live like that is far worse than death. Death is sweet.

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