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If that's true,I hope the law is soon changed. Kidnappers are the scum of the Earth,and put the parents of the children they steal through a living hell. It is a ultimate crime.

Unfortunately the Supreme Court held in Coker v. Georgia (1977) that the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment (cruel and punishment). I think that kidnapping is covered under the ruling.

You are probably right,but the SC were wrong to do this,and it needs to be changed. Physical rape is nothing compared to the mental rape kidnap victims go through,especially children kidnap victims. What can be crueler than keeping a child in a state of perpetual terror,and making them think they will never again be safe? Most adults can't even handle this. Why else do you think so many people are willing statists who see the government as the "ultimate daddy" who is going to protect them against all harm or risk? It's because the thought of being on their own terrifies them,and these people are adults who can reaonably be expected to cope with just being on their own. It can't begin to compare with the terror a child feels at not only being abandoned (and you KNOW they think this deep down),but being a slave who must do whatever their captive wants in order to just continue to live.

"Unfortunately the Supreme Court held in Coker v. Georgia (1977) that the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment (cruel and punishment)."

I would be interested in knowing what a panel of women would have ruled in this case. To me rape is more violent than murder and long-term consequences can often be worse than murder for woman and her family.

In the case of a child who has been violated in this way the long term consequences are, to my mind, more horrifying.

Too bad the jury can't be all female.