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From: cja@lzwi.UUCP (C.E.JACKSON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Penalties for Rape
Message-ID: <168@lzwi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 19:12:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 19:12:56 1985
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In article <191@dcdwest.UUCP>, benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson) writes:
> In the discussions that have taken place in the last few weeks, the
> penalties for rape have been alluded to.  Sometimes people have
> suggested the death penalty, castration or long prison terms.  I would
> like to know what people think is an appropriate penalty and why.  Is
> there some way in which rape can be compared with other crimes so that
> comparable punishments could be exacted.

Whatever the punishment is for mutilating someone is what the
penalty should be for rape. It's essentially the same thing.


C. E. Jackson
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