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To: Joe 6-pack
I'm in favor of capital punishment being on the table for any crime in which the victim would have been justified resisting with lethal force; certainly, this would include rape.

It would include murder, rape (of anyone), kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault ...

Not objecting ... merely observing.

Might severely curb the enthusiasm some criminals.

28 posted on 11/22/2011 7:28:51 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard; Joe 6-pack; Kaslin
It would include murder, rape (of anyone), kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated assault ...

I would include brain death in the list. There are women who have persisted in vegetative states after someone slipped them the "date rape drug" rohypnol. I would also include attempted murder where there is serious bodily injury. Why should an attempted murderer get convicted of a lesser crime just because an emergency room physician is able to save a victim who in earlier times would have died of his or her injuries?

33 posted on 11/22/2011 7:39:24 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: ArrogantBustard
"Might severely curb the enthusiasm some criminals."

Indeed, that is the point. When a criminal commits a crime in which the victim would be justified resisting with deadly force, it is the criminal who has voluntarily subordinated the value of his own life to the fruits of the crime. Again, I'm not saying capital punishment should be mandatory in all such cases, but the option should be there...

38 posted on 11/22/2011 7:54:47 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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