RAPE-capital punishment?

But women should not feel guilty about the evil that happened to her.They should try to relieve themselves from that state.Though it is difficult it is a nice suggestion.

Yes, you are right nagalakshmi, she should relieve from her bad happend and should start a new life.then stand on her foot so that no will have words to comment her.

At first, I want to congratulate for posting such most important and much discussed topic 'Rape-capital punishment?'
I suggest in one line that Capital Punishment is excellent for the said crime. 'Rape' I feel, is one 'Capital Crime'. It is a direct attack to the modesty of a woman and most important is, it continues with super fast speed. In America alone, as per statistical report of America, in every three seconds a rape took place there. In India,in every three hour there is a rape took place. By implementing capital punishment,the crime rate can be reduced.
The low rape per capita rate in Saudi is mainly due to the capital punishment and strict laws in rape cases in Saudi Arabia. This is all because the Saudi and other South East countries follows the 'Shariaa law'. Proper dressing of women could also preventing them from sexual assault.

Rape is forced, unwanted sexual intercourse. Rape is about power, not sex. Both men and women of any age can be raped

sumit wrote:
[quote]Rape is forced, unwanted sexual intercourse. Rape is about power, not sex. Both men and women of any age can be raped[/quote]

Her the issue is: women lose 'honor' Men do not lose it. This is double standard of society. We have to fight against this concept. A woman raped does not really lose 'honor'. she only suffers physically.

What ever you said is correct gulshan, but society wont agree, they will torture the women who is suffering from.

You are right, Sumit. What is your opinion to eliminate rape occurrence in India. Suggest some bold steps which may surely stop raping.

Basheer wrote:
[quote]You are right, Sumit. What is your opinion to eliminate rape occurrence in India. Suggest some bold steps which may surely stop raping.[/quote]

The existing punishment is okay. The social organizations especially women should be vigilant and see that the culprits are in fact punished.

Secondly, the vehicles, weapons and the things used in committing crime should be confiscated and Passport/ Driving licence/ voting rights/ university degree suspended/ withdrawn. Thus the vehicle used in committing rape be confiscated and the criminal's driving licence canceled. In Delhi, the criminals used cars to drag girls in and raped while driving. Here apart from other punishment, the car should be confiscated and driving licence canceled.

The images of the individuals committing any heinous crime including rape should be placed on web sites and at prominent place in the city of occurrence of such crimes.

But, all these should not going to stop the ongoing crime 'rape',
What concrete steps to take in order to stop at once the said crime, this has to be considered.

Such persons should be hanged in-front of the public. This creates a fear among the citizens.

you are right Deepti, it creates fear among the citizens.This is a nice idea and the crime rate will decrease but there is a draw back. Some culprit are like they wont care their death.Just they want to enjoy doing bad things.

But Deepti, we are here discussing about the punishment to be given to the culprit and why not thinking the ways to completely stop the crime? Capital punishment surely decrease the rate of crime, but the actual question is which step, if taken seriously, will surely affect the crime and the rapist's fear to do any further.

The culprit who did such thing, he should be torture in different ways, so that he should know the pain the women faced due that culprit.

What is the reason for increasing crime rate in India? Whether the society is responsible for this or the education system is not up to standard level.

Not only rape, other big crimes also are going on in full swing. How to change the society for a crime less living.

Any crime can be forgotten easily but the rape cant be forgotten. It is a life long pain.So the culprit who done that should be punished lifelong with pains as the women suffer and then he should hang on the public, while hanging he should be burnt lively.Then the people in the society will be feard of such crimes and then they stop committing such crime.

Besides this, the moral values, which has been lost for quite some time and continuing decreasing, has to be increasing by changing the education system. Then we develop a new generation with good moral values, who respect women.

sarala wrote:
[quote]Any crime can be forgotten easily but the rape cant be forgotten. It is a life long pain.So the culprit who done that should be punished lifelong with pains as the women suffer and then he should hang on the public, while hanging he should be burnt lively.Then the people in the society will be afraid of such crimes and then they stop committing such crime.[/quote]

The lifelong pain and inability to forget is caused by social double standard. Giving savage punishment will not help. We need to finish double standard. A woman raped is as respectable as any other woman and she must forget the rape as she would forget any injury.

The punishment as at present is adequate. But in most cases, the culprits escape punishment. It is necessary to strictly enforce the law and ensure that no culprit escapes punishment. Secondly, the vehicle, weapon etc. used by the culprit should be confiscated and his driving licence canceled. These steps should be adequate.

It is the duty of the govt. to control the crime and also create some positive atmosphere in order to raise the morality of people.

See...I agree with the fact that the woman should not feel guilty and the woman should change her outlook...but is that really possible?..shes been raped...thats a totally different thing..her feelings are not that of guilt but of agony..the act of rape is a very violent one where men derive pleasure by proving themselves to be the superior sex. It is a distorted disgusting view..and the very proof of that is the rape of 2 month year old babies! How can the baby change its view? how can the society change the view? its a baby! and as a sure case it dies! No matter how much ever a woman takes care..this atrocity may happen and what makes her feel horrible is the "what ifs". what if i hadn't gotten out that early..what if i had gone with my friends...what if i hadn't taken that route..the list is endless.....such horrible monstrosity has been FORCED on the woman! and the woman is supposed to change her mentality?....how??

The society shuns the woman...society is at fault..i really dont get why they do dis...but then they should also be more humane...but then just because the society becomes very accepting doesn't mean rape stops..does it? Even if the society is more kind and caring for the person who has been raped..that does not make rape an okay thing..does it?? and neither does it stop rape! Raising the punishment and the SURETY that the person will be punished are the only things that can dissuade people from not committing rape. I really love the ideas put forth by many that the criminals limbs must be chopped off or to mete them with Arab level punishments! These are the only ways i see.