Ken DeSoto said:

I totally agree with you on the subject, in regards to the 8th
amendment.....As for Jeanne implying that rapists should be tortured and
suffer as much as the victim, is also wrong thinking...two wrongs don't make
a right, no matter what the law says.

    This is so true.

Wrong!  By your reasoning, *no* punishment should ever occur.  The 
difference between life imprisonment and mutilation is that imprisonment is 
reversible, *not* that one is a "wrong" and the other is not.  Both hurt the 
person to whom the punishment is done.

     We were referring to torturous means as punishment. Theoretically, we
should live in a society which doesn't have such things as rape or other
crimes. Unfortunately, this is all we have to live with at the moment.
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