It’s off the subject, but I’ll explain why rape should not be a capital crime.
Do you know why so many of the Little Lindbergh laws were repealed? I do. It’s also the best common sense reason to not make rape a capital crime. When a crime carries the ultimate penalty, there is no longer any reason whatsoever to not escalate that crime to the ultimate crime.
Several states overreacted and knee-jerked statutes into effect post Lindbergh that made kidnapping a capital crime. Kidnapping, already rare, remained at about the same level of occurance, but the number of kidnappings that escalated to murder spiked. The laws were universally repealed, and the kidnappings that escalated to murder declined to their former levels.
You’d see the same thing with rape. Make it a capital crime, and you’ll see more murder rapes. There is no longer a reason to let the victim live, and every reason not to.
My point is that killing the victim of a crime is wrong. If anyone should die it should not be the victim. Unfortunately society has decided that being conceived by rape or incest makes one deserving of the death penalty.
For the same reason that the death penalty for murdering all the witnesses and victims died out?