RE: A person on another forum was mean to me!
June 24, 2012 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2012 at 2:25 pm by Tempus.)
(June 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(June 24, 2012 at 11:27 am)Tempus Wrote: If rape were punishable by death what incentive would rapists have to not murder their victims or witnesses?Most of them already do.
Do they? I'd be interested in seeing something to back that up. I did a short search and couldn't find anything but second-hand statistics:
University of Texas Wrote:Although many women express strong fear about being murdered by a rapist, in fact only one in 10,000 rapists kill their victims. Sexual predators exploit fear of being killed as a strategy designed to successfully carry out a rape. (http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/murder/index.html)
Missouri State University Wrote:[One myth about rape is that] most rapists kill their victim. One percent or less of all rapes end in murder. (http://www.semo.edu/dps/sexual_assault.htm)
I reckon the figures mentioned probably only apply to the US, so it may differ elsewhere. Neither of the above cite their sources, unfortunately. Being universities you'd think they would. Again, I don't see any reason to believe that most rapists kill their victims. At least 50% of rapes would need to end in murder for that to be true. If the above statistics are any indication that's way off.
