Why is the punishment for rape so minimal?
93253
Unfortunately it is because those laws were passed when women were thought of as objects and posessions. Rape was the woman's fault, etc. I strongly suggest writing a POM to your congressmen stating that you would like to see those laws changed. I am entirely in favor of changing them and I am entirely in favor of Jessica's Law!
881913
Okay our legal justice system does perceive that there is a difference in certain offenses obviously you have them confused....How dare you to compare the heinous crime of raping someone (A felony) to the illegal immigrant to the date a (Misdemeanor -- to mean minor crime)
231255
Most prison system have time reduction for good behavior.  This gives an incentive for inmates to be good and saves the state money on keeping the inmate for the full term.
412022
Age old question.  An eye for an eye.  It's the final way we have as a society of saying to those who commit murder that we will not tolerate the behaviour.  Unfortunately, jail and the death penalty do not seem to be a deterrent to those who commit the crimes - otherwise we'd have empty prisons and no such thing as death row.
386778
I'm pretty sure it varies by state. It may also vary depending on the duration and severity of the crime. Which is not to say that any sexual offense is less harmful than another, but that is just the way the law works.
448101
Well there are a lot of sick people in this world today and as a socity we have grown more sexualy. With tv and the internet it has grown more easly for petitfiles to meet with smally children, and less time in prison than any other time in history for committing a crime.Rapeing of our children is easier for them to do and they dont get much time. So we as a people need to set hasher pentiles for these crimes.
946781
Because they have committed horrific crimes. They have demonstrated that they are not fit to live. There will always be issues as to who does & doesn't deserve this ultimate penalty. I think anyone who rapes and murders deserves death. Those who do this to children, I'll volunteer to throw the switch myself.
665048
I guess some women like the action that a rape does. They call it different ways, like getting it rough and hard. Or getting rode hard and put away wet. I had a girl I had to leave alone because every time it came to sex she wanted to be raped, and not no vanilla role playing rape. But hard mean vicious type rape. Complete with slapping, hair pulling the whole nine yards. And she suggested I find some friends to "pull a train on her". I tried to convince her, soft and loving was better but she never wanted to hear of that. So, the amount of women who want to participate in rape-like sex I believe are more than what would admit to. I guess if you are an active participant in the act, you don't have to call it rape because no one really took anything from you.
54748
Studies show that the threat of capital punishment has no deterrent effect at all. This has to do with the peculiar way in which human beings think: the perpetrator of a violent crime is deathly afraid of being caught (which is often why victims of violent crimes who see the perpetrator's indentifying characteristics are killed.) However, perpetrators rarely, if ever, extend their fears far out enough to consider any possible sentence they face from the legal system.\n\nJurisdictions without the death penalty, in fact, consistently show lower violent crime rates than those with...
1019899
What if the person is convicted and then punished accordingly by your standards here and it comes to light that he/she was in fact innocent? I cannot tell you how many time I have heard horror stories about abuse. both physical and sexual, and what gets to me is how detailed and convincing stories can be only to find out they were false. Castration isn't an issue as there are a LOT of abusers who have nothing to castrate (women abusers) and even some abusers who ARE castrated. Killing them isn't an option at all because "Thou shalt not commit murder". Taking the life of another human being for any reason IS murder, even if they would deserve it, even if they themselves committed murder, even in a war. But in EVERY court action of rape and molestation, after a defendant is convicted, the victims or victims family DO get to make statements to the court and the jury and/or judge hears these pleas and pass sentence accordingly. Allowing these victims to pass judgment alone would not work because of the emotional issue as already stated. Also, which family member gets to decide if they are not unanimous??
416534
The legal system is fraught with inequities. Punishments never seem to fit the crime. I think I have come up with a somewhat novel approach.\nI suggest we take a "one size fits all" approach to crime and punishment.\nWe will determine guilt or innocence in open court.\nInnocent men will go free\n(for the most part, hopefully).\nJustice will be served.\n\nhere's the good part.\n\nAnyone who is determined guilty in open court of any offense:drunk driving, reckless endangerment, shoplifting, jaywalking, public nudity, obscenity etc. and so on \nad nauseum.\nWill face the one penalty allowed under law.\n\nThe penalty for all crimes will be death.It does not matter what the crime is. If you are guilty of it you forfeit your life.\n\nNow who is going to be able to call that unfair.
803111
Hitting a child teaches violence.  Therefore it isn't a effective punishment.\n\nThe death penalty is effective since the person who is executed is no longer around to commit crimes.  However, I do not support the death penalty because there is always the risk of convicting/sentencing the innocent.  The chance of putting innocent people to death isn't worth it.
514019
In the UK it is a case of one mans words against a womans. \nThe womans sexual history is dragged through the courts while the law protects the mans from being talked about because his past history means nothing ?????\nIf there is evidence of lack of consent then it mans a lot. But often there's nothing (think about how often a woman would want to sit around in the police station feeling disgusting and to be subjected to intimate examinations after that kind of ordeal).
901115
I'm an American now living in the UK. I'm in complete agreement with the death penalty in murder and rape cases. I feel that if you take a life, your life is forfeited. Rape takes a life in a different way. Chances are a woman that's raped won't ever be normal again.
843434
I believe that it's a pre-set sentence according to what you did.  Kidnapping will always get 30 years, murder always get the death penelty, rape always gets 30 years.
46990
Because sentencing a murderer to free food, free clothes, a free gym, free cable, and all the other things that the law-abiding have to work for (and if they cannot legally afford have to do without) does not seem like a punishment to me.\n\nThe only way I would agree with doing away  with the death penalty would be if prisons were actually a PUNISHMENT for the crime committed - meaning none of the above perks.  A small cell with a toilet and a sink.  Maybe, if they behave, once a week they can go for a stroll in the court yard for exercise.  But that's it.
474562
Rape is not the fault of the victim or anything she/he is wearing. A skimpy clothing choice is perhaps not wise, but the rapist is at fault. The full weight of the crime belongs on his shoulders, no one else's.