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Originally Posted by Rhythmic
I really can't see how there are people for this.
So it is just fine to put a man to death because he had drunken sex with some woman who later decided it made her too much of a slut and regretted it and decided to call it rape?
No, We can even leave the regretted part out. There have been plenty of times where two people get drunk. Have sex. Woman can barly remember that night and the man gets charged with rape as he cries that she was consenting that night?
I've know somebody who barely missed a rape charge back in highschool because some girl didn't want to get in trouble when her parents found out she was having sex.
Look, A lot of rape cases a lot of the times come down to a he said she said. Could you guys be on a jury and really send a man to death based on her word? Serious, Most rape cases are not the "drag a random girl into the bushes, beat the fuck out of her and rape her" kind. Most end up being "we were drunk he took advantage of my drunkeness"
How many people are really willing to send a man to death where the thing in the case is "I was drunk too drunk to remember" and the guy saying "she wanted it and even told me fuck her harder"
This is going to end up having the reverse effect I would think. Less rape cases are going to end up getting any convictions. Maybe I just have more faith in people that they really wouldn't send somebody to die based on he said/she said evidence.
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I'm glad that this thread is focusing on date rape and statutory rape. What jury is going to give the death penalty to a date rape or statutory rape offender. Obviously none of you are. I certainly wouldn't. That whole argument is bogus. What the law has to be contemplating is forceable rape. As in murder cases, the jury (and the judge) has discretion about sentencing.
Suppose you have evidence that a 30 yr repeat sex offender who just broke out of prison while serving a life sentence violently and brutally raped a 10 year old girl and knifepoint. What are you going to do, give him a life sentence... he already has that. A law like this allows judges and juries discretion. There is a huge gap in the level of violence and degree of culpability between the rape I just described and the ones you guys are describing. You are building straw men.
If you have a serious contention that in the example above the person should not get the death penalty, fine. There are many rational arguments to be made for that. Arguing that people could be given the death penalty for a he said she said rape or statutory rape is absurd.