Punishment for Rape - Death?

Rehabilitating a rapist? The state should rehabilitate thieves, drug addicts, even paedos who haven't played with children yet, but if you rape someone you should lose your chance once and for all and rot in prison.

How is keeping someone in prison for life advantageous to rehabilitating them and reintroducing them into society?

Furthermore, how will you know that the individual is actually guilty of the crime accused? how can you ensure that it is not a miscarriage of justice, sometimes 'criminals' are cleared of their crimes many years after their conviction. Admittedly, this only happens for a small proportion of criminals but are you really willing to murder an innocent man?

Castration.

Why would you want to rehabilitate reintroduce a rapist into society? He had his chance, he ****ed up. If I see a hot girl, I don't jump on her. I can control my urges. If someone else can't, well, it's his choice and he'll have to pay for that.

Death is far too extreme in any situation. No one on earth is superior; as a result, it is an impossible decision to say when someone deserves to die or not.

As someone vaguely mentioned already, there are a lot of false accusations of rape - societies response is usually to believe the victim.

Certainly the death penalty is an ineffective deterrent for `crimes of passion' which you might class rape as. The majority of hangings in Singapore are for drug crimes which I feel is fundamentally wrong on the part of the Singapore state, not least because I'm opposed to the criminalization of drugs, but that's a different argument altogether.

What's the advantage to society? What's better: Keeping him in prison his whole life and giving him round the clock care and security at the taxpayer's expense, or re-habilitating him in prison and the releasing him back into society at a much lower cost. Plus, our prisons are overcrowded as it is, keeping rapists locked up for their whole lives will exacerbate that problem massively.

Rape = Forced sexual intercourse with another individual who didn't consent to the act.

that is the biggest bull**** i've ever heard! http://www.awolau.org/2010/04/05/myth-busters-false-rape-reports/

"92-98 percent of rape allegations are true" and considering only 16-20% of rapes are reported, i don't really understand where you think there are "a lot of false accusations of rape". all these dumbass myths about rape that society perpetuates only allows rape to keep going at the rate it's going, instead of stopping to problem.

as far as taking the side of the victim goes: http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates

about 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail.

i'm pretty sure the courts take the side of the rapists, not their victim(s).



rape is about power, not passion. get your facts straight.

Singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and among the lowest users of illegal drugs anywhere in the world.

Death penalty and capital punishment has obviously worked there no?

Completely misunderstood my point, but whatever.

singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and among the lowest users of illegal drugs anywhere in the world.

Death penalty and capital punishment has obviously worked there no?

i don't care what your point is. stop posting stuff that isn't true when other people might believe you.

Even for that 2-8% it's better to be safe than sorry, and you know, not kill them?

trolololololol, what?

You're trying to create an argument over semantics, I don't care what kind of crime you class it as, the point I'm making is that the death penalty isn't an effective deterrent nor is it humane.

Great attitude to bring in to a forum discussion anyway

Correlation doesn't imply causation... idiot.

There are 10's of country's who'se laws are stricter than Singapore's and, yet, their murder/rape/drug crimes are extremely high.

i didn't say whether i supported the death penalty or not. i was merely aiming to set some facts straight.



again, i wasn't saying i do or don't support the death penalty. but a major problem in, well, pretty much all cultures is people don't see rape for what it's for, which allows for rape to continue to be a major problem without much notice from the media or government.

i myself won't ever support the death penalty because of the chances of an innocent dying, but to say that there are a lot of false rape claims and that the courts take the side of the victim is ignorant of you, and i was trying to point that out.

Yeah, I never said that. Please try to keep up with who says what, it's really not that intellectually demanding.