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To: NCLaw441
For example, I favor the death penalty for rape. Those who don’t like the death penalty for rape, if such a law were passed, would be well-served by not raping anyone.

So you support having the death penalty on the table for a crime where it's mostly her word against his? That's insane.

67 posted on 02/16/2011 6:59:50 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Norman Bates

I am only in support of the death penalty for a CONVICTION of rape, which requires evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. I don’t think he said/she said alone gets a rape conviction in these days of DNA and all. Many states had the death penalty for rape until the US Supreme Court canned it back in the 70s, I believe.


68 posted on 02/17/2011 5:26:07 AM PST by NCLaw441 (I before E except after C, or when sounded as A in neighbor and weigh. Isn't that WEIRD?)
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