If you make a fake rape accusation there is now no incentive to recant because one of you are going to die. This will have the opposite affect you want it to have.
Right, they already get away with the crime and it's not like they get anything out of telling the truth. How often do false rape accusers have a sudden change of heart and tell the truth out of a moral duty? Literally never. You can't make a situation worse if it's already mathematically as bad as it can get.
Which is why the threshold of evidence must be extremely high for death penalty convictions.
I am not of the belief that we should convict based upon a person's say so alone. Too many times, innocent people have been smeared or worse because someone decided to lie. Perjury should earn the same fate as the case they were lying about. The lack of punishment for perjury has led to many innocent people being convicted. If you can't prove a crime with physical/digital evidence, there is no crime.
Give me a map, because I am lost.
If you make a fake rape accusation there is now no incentive to recant because one of you are going to die. This will have the opposite affect you want it to have.
That's why it's an opinion. But, to the fact, there really is no incentive to recant anyways.
Right, they already get away with the crime and it's not like they get anything out of telling the truth. How often do false rape accusers have a sudden change of heart and tell the truth out of a moral duty? Literally never. You can't make a situation worse if it's already mathematically as bad as it can get.
Figuratively never. There has been once or twice when they've pled guilty, usually with a deflecting admission like "my parents made me accuse him".
You hang a man for rape, and five years later hang the woman who accused him of it when you realize she lied, you've done him no justice.
Which is why the threshold of evidence must be extremely high for death penalty convictions.
I am not of the belief that we should convict based upon a person's say so alone. Too many times, innocent people have been smeared or worse because someone decided to lie. Perjury should earn the same fate as the case they were lying about. The lack of punishment for perjury has led to many innocent people being convicted. If you can't prove a crime with physical/digital evidence, there is no crime.