The Death Penalty

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Remember the only crime you can get it for and not in all states is 1st degree murder. Premeditated murder. The only rational reason against it is that you could make a mistake. Beth brings up a good point about cost but that isn't a reason to be against it. That can be fixed. Appeals can be limited. Time on death row can be limited, etc...From a moral point of view, I have no problem with it. The issue is you can't make a mistake and mistakes have happened. Now in the age of DNA, mistakes are much less likely to happen. So I support the death penalty with the caveat that you better be right...I'd be in favor of the death penalty for rape as well.

joeydb made a good point as to why it can't be used for rape, it will just encourage the rapists to kill their victims as it makes it less likely they will be caught and the punishment would be the same.

Now if rapists were subject to castration, that is something I could support.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

joeydb made a good point as to why it can't be used for rape, it will just encourage the rapists to kill their victims as it makes it less likely they will be caught and the punishment would be the same.

I understand where you are coming from but not all rapists are murderers. I don't agree that people who do things like this would simply think ahead to the point of killing their victim.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

I understand where you are coming from but not all rapists are murderers. I don't agree that people who do things like this would simply think ahead to the point of killing their victim.

To me there are two different groups of rapists:

Group 1 is the ones that just rape random strangers, they probably deserve the death penalty but they are also the same group that might just start raping and then killing their victims if you had the death penalty for rapists.

Group 2 is the the ones that rape girls they are already engaged in relations with. These are the Kobe Bryant/Mike Tyson/Ben Roethlisberger's that have a tough time understanding that when a woman comes to their room (or goes into a stall with them) they still have the right to say no. These sort of rapists would never kill their victims cause they don't often think what they are doing is wrong. But while this group should be punished I do not believe that they deserve the death penalty. Accidental statutory rapists like Lawrence Taylor would fall into this category too.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

joeydb made a good point as to why it can't be used for rape, it will just encourage the rapists to kill their victims as it makes it less likely they will be caught and the punishment would be the same.

Now if rapists were subject to castration, that is something I could support.

Joey's point was a good one, though on the other hand you would think that knowing you will be put to death for rape or murder would maybe prevent people from committing the crime.

I'm all for castration for 1st degree sex offenders. (dont think a 18yo high school senior should be castrated for sleeping with his freshmen girlfriend).

They should make it as painful as possible too. (though that will never happen, since we cant even pour water over terrorists faces)