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Is the death penalty too lenient a sentence for rapists?



    




ikeman32
Well considering that it take at least fifteen years before a convicted criminal is executed yes. But really what could be worse than death except for perhaps a public penilectomy with a blind woman holding a pair of dull scissors.


robert g
yes, years of being raped in prison is worse.


josephrob2003
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MAYBE A BIT OF TORTURE THOWN IN AS WELL,JUST LIKE THEY PUT THEIR VICTIMS THROUGH IT


TOON ARMY FOR EVER.
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Whats the alternative then?I would have thought that death was kind of final.


Go ahead, make my day!
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Too lenient??? What do you propose as a punishment then, castration? If so, I vote cut it off and keep them alive to suffer!


richard_beckham2001
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Yes chop there balls off first.


Some Other Guy
I bet it would cut down on repeat offenders.
In the immortal words of Cheech and Chong, "Whack their PeePee"


Rita
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Yes.


sean b
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no they should torture before giving the death penelty


Jenna
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rapist get off to easily!


Alex - Æsahættr
Do you mean torture should be considered?


Beatlemaniac
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There is never any justification for the Death Penalty far too many innocent people in the past have been wrongly executed!!! The worst punishment would be to keep them alive in solitary confinement!!!


Ross F
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send them on a ship in anchored in the middle of the ocean and leave them their to rot.


witnessprotectionprogram
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Do you know what lenient means....cause this question makes no sense


Dory
They have got to get to court first. The crown prosecution service don't bring rape trials to court unless they are convinced they can get a conviction and even then they get it wrong. I was raped and spent 8 weeks in hospital and it never even went to court. He still roams the streets and will do it again. I was told that they have his DNA on record and when he does it again, I may have to give evidence but they would not bring my case to court as they thought that I would not be able to with stand the cross examination. Not only was I raped I then had to go through a medical examination by a male doctor and then through 2 days of questioning of details that I wanted to forget. Then to cap it all because of details that I gave I had to go through a second medical examination, but thank god it was by a woman. Things have got to change drastically and they can castrate him and then hang him for all I care. He ruined my life. Its been 3 years and I cant even go out of by home by myself.


Blue
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Yes, they should get life in prison without the possibility to wipe the lipstick off. That would be an eye for an eye.


suziejoy
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as opposed to double death chemical castration is the other alternative for 1st offence then off with hands and c o c.


paul c
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we should all agree on the fact that any crime of extreme violence such as rape , murder etc warrents a death penalty.
but what if we execute an innocent person, which has happened many times. does that not make us guilty of murder?
who do we execute then for society to gain its revenge?


clever girl
Not the death sentence that is to extreme, however, castration works for me.


little miss lovely
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good question...i think it's harsh,however there needs to be a serious shuffle where the whole judicial system is reconsidered as the punishments definately do not fit the crimes.


devo395
This is a total perception issue. I think if you are the victim of a rapist you would probally feel that it is an appropriate punishment. If you are a rapist definitely to severe. My personal belief is that a first time rapist should be Physically castrated and given a 10 to 20 year sentence, unless the rapist is HIV positive then the punishment should be much more severe. A multiple offense rapist probally the death penalty.


"la perte de clown"
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how the hell can you say or ask if the death penalty is lenient,
it`s death, it`s the end of the road,
that's not leniency, that's justice!


Lenny
Yeah. cut their guts out and hang them from trees then throw them to dogs.......
death penalty makes you no better than them. Also, what if you got it wrong?? Can happen.


MIB3112
chemical castration is the only answer, if found innocent later the process can be reversed


sweetness
they sould be hanged


James S
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You need to define rape, as there are differing degrees and types. But in general our society has made a collective decision that the death penalty is to harsh a sentence for rapists. The death penalty may only be imposed in certain types of cases involving treason and certain types of murders (just a plain old murder won't do).

Now, there is currently a rash of states enacting these nonsensical laws calling for a death penalty in the event that someone is convicted of child molestation or rape. I expect those laws to be struck down by the state's own Supreme Court, or if it passes through there somehow then the U.S. Supreme Court.


sonnenschein
Yes, they would get off too easily.


Happy Man
That would depend on how they executed them.A few months of brutal torture electric shocks and stuff first then give them aids, skin them roll them in salt.I could go on all night.


kareena
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they should be raped too, give them a taste of their own medicine...


Spongebob
nobody has the right to take the life of somebody else. even a rapist.

they have to spend their whole life in jail.





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