Posted on 08/19/2012 7:26:43 AM PDT by icwhatudo
Here is an overview of rape as a capital offence at http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/death_for_rape_an_echo_of_the_past/.
I remember growing up in WV in the 1950s rape was a capital crime.
Or to Hell! Wait! Not all that much difference. Send 'em to Hell,anyway.
I think capital punishment ought to be re-instituted for rape of an adult woman. With certain stipulations.
First, if it is shown the woman is lying, she should suffer whatever the penalty for attempted murder is.
Second, the evidence must be clear. “She said, he said”, just won’t cut it. this will pretty much rule out “date rape”, and drunken party stuff. Forcible stranger rape would be what got the death penalty.
There might be a few more reasonable stipulations that I am not thinking about right now. I would be glad to hear them.
Ramadon, one of the men accused of the sexual assault, was featured in A Soldiers Promise, a 2009 combat memoir penned by Army First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex about the time he spent deployed in the Iraqi town of Husaybah. Hendrex described helping Ramadon in his effort to immigrate to the U.S. in exchange for vital information the youngster 14 at the time provided Hendrexs unit about local insurgents.
Probably got here via the State Department's VISA Express program. Just wave 'em on thru. (Nothing to do w/ the credit card company)
...in boxes!
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