Is capital punishment for rape reasonable?

The justices overturned a death sentence for three-time rapist Ehrlich Coker and strongly suggested that only homicide qualifies as a capital crime. Coker's .... The court will hear his claim that he and his lawyer were entitled to “reasonable notice” if the judge was thinking of ignoring the sentence range set in the guidelines. read more

Thanks to the idea of capital punishment that an easier way to do away with the crime has been found by the doers of the heinous crime. To kill the victim throw her somewhere and move away and if lucky enough then the crime would never be traced back to the offender. read more

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Lackey bases her argument against natural life sentences on two reasonable claims: (1) people (criminals, specifically) can and do change in profoundly transformative ways, and (2) we cannot know the future. read more