# Death penalty for child rapists

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 17, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104 "2013-09-17T23:16:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104/81 "2013-09-21T05:01:58Z")

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If there is to be a death penalty, I think that raping a child (or any kind of rape [barring statutory rape, of course]) would qualify for it.

**TashaKitty** , I’m with you. (Don’t you dare cave in to all of the hysterical abuse and change your position!)

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-for-child-rapists/669104/82 "2013-09-21T05:29:33Z")

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If children who were raped go on to become child rapists, shouldn’t we logically kill the child rapist and the child? If we did this, then this would be the last generation of child rapists.

They’d thank us for this in 50 years.

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