“We need to go back to strict death penalty for 1st degree murder and for aggravated rape.”
The one objection I can think of is that if you make aggravated rape automatically a capital offense, then you create an incentive for rapists to just kill their victims as a matter of course. They’d face no worse penalty for doing it, and they eliminate the key witness.
I’m not sure... I suspect going away for 20 years could be as much of a motive for murder, probably why many rape victims are killed. How many more would refrain from even the thought of the act if they knew it would result in their death? Good questions though...