Should sexual assault be a death penalty offense?

[Hank77]

If course women aren’t above being vindictive and ruthless. I hope you didn’t think I implied otherwise.

No not at all.

 

[Strathos]

You cannot expect anyone to take an anti-death penalty advocate seriously when he or she does not hold to the principle that it is wrong to intentionally take the life of an innocent human being. If a person believes that abortion is acceptable he has absolutely no ground or principle on which he can assert that it is wrong to put to death a person convicted of a crime.

Stop trying to hijack the thread with unrelated issues. Abortion is only 'acceptable' in certain circumstances.

Not in America.

Yes in America.

One in 25 Sentenced to Death in the U.S. Is Innocent

 

[AV1611VET]

Should sexual assault be a death penalty offense?

Yes.

 

[AV1611VET]

In a combat zone, yes.

In that case, the whole world is a combat zone.

 

[AV1611VET]

What about false allegations? What about Joseph? Should he have been executed?

Not without due process.

 

[AV1611VET]

Too many people have been proven innocent yrs. later.

What's the ratio?

 

[AV1611VET]

King David wasn't put to death and neither was Bathsheba.

That appears to have been consensual.

 

[Shimokita]

Considering the fact that most rapes are never reported and fewer still result in convictions, it would seem that we’d be better off putting our efforts into preventing rape by addressing its causes. We could start with the philosophy held by some cultures and religions that women should be submissive to men, and also think about the fact that most women are raped by someone they know.

There is no connection. Both male and female parents believe that their children should submit to their authority. Nobody asserts that this is a cause why children are raped. The idea that traditional beliefs concerning the roles of men and women is a cause of rape is a fantasy. It is simply a shaming tactic used by feminists to gain power.

 

[Shimokita]

Stop trying to hijack the thread with unrelated issues. Abortion is only 'acceptable' in certain circumstances.



Yes in America.

One in 25 Sentenced to Death in the U.S. Is Innocent

No, you attempted to highjack the thread by turning it into a general discussion on why the death penalty should be abolished in all cases, instead of sticking to the more limited topic of this thread, which relates to the application of the death penalty in the limited case of rape. If you want to open the thread up to the general topic of the death penalty, abortion is fair game because abortion is a penalty of death. Or did you not know that there is a human being in the mother’s womb?

 

[Strathos]

No, you attempted to highjack the thread by turning it into a general discussion on why the death penalty should be abolished in all cases, instead of sticking to the more limited topic of this thread, which relates to the application of the death penalty in the limited case of rape. If you want to open the thread up to the general topic of the death penalty, abortion is fair game because abortion is a penalty of death. Or did you not know that there is a human being in the mother’s womb?

Abortion is completely off-topic when discussing the death penalty. It's a much trickier subject, as I can't support cases such as forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term when it could put her life in danger.

 

[Shimokita]

Abortion is completely off-topic when discussing the death penalty. It's a much trickier subject, as I can't support cases such as forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term when it could put her life in danger.

No, it is not completely off topic. Both are consequences of the same fundamental problem - lack of respect for the dignity of life.

 

[Brightmoon]

Too expensive.

Less expensive than , hospital bills ,therapy ,the wasted potential of a life that’s been trashed by someone’s selfishness because of the trauma and don’t forget since women and girls tend to get blamed for being victimized by rape , the suicides and attempted suicides . I think ( to paraphrase that old song)it’s cheaper to keep him.

 

[AV1611VET]

Less expensive than hospital bills, therapy, the wasted potential of a life that’s been trashed by someone’s selfishness because of the trauma and don’t forget since women and girls tend to get blamed for being victimized by rape , the suicides and attempted suicides. I think (to paraphrase that old song) it’s cheaper to keep him.

How much trauma abatement occurs when the victim sees the accused submitted to due process, facing a swift and mandatory death sentence?

Of course, the answer is: "We don't know."

And that's a shame.

 

[SkyWriting]

April is "sexual assault awareness month" so we should be thinking about this problem. Considering the horrendous damage this crime does to it's victim, at the time of the assault and further down the road, should these offenders be put to death? (I'm speaking only of those offenses that involve forced penetration and violence, not verbal abuse or 'groping'.)

They should be held until they repent.

 

[SkyWriting]

How much trauma abatement occurs when the victim sees the accused submitted to due process, facing a swift and mandatory death sentence?
Of course, the answer is: "We don't know."
And that's a shame.

Their crimes are what is disgusting, as well as the light sentences most get, Texas notwithstanding.

It's not settling for the perp to be dead and gone, as you might think.

 

[Strathos]

No, it is not completely off topic. Both are consequences of the same fundamental problem - lack of respect for the dignity of life.

Are we going to add war to the discussion next then?

 

[Shimokita]

Are we going to add war to the discussion next then?

Go ahead.

 

[AV1611VET]

It's not settling for the perp to be dead and gone, as you might think.

I pray you're not speaking from experience.

 

[Strathos]

Go ahead.

That wasn't an invitation.

 

[Shimokita]

That wasn't an invitation.

It is now.