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Rape should be an automatic death sentence and child rapist should be executed using the most obscene methods of torture. This should be the case regardless of what the courts deem is a fitting punishment for those convicted.
In many cases, it was in Western culture until modernity, weirdly enough.
From Wikipedia (I know, I know):
"From the classical antiquity of Greece and Rome into the Colonial period, rape along with arson, treason and murder was a capital offense. "Those committing rape were subject to a wide range of capital punishments that were seemingly brutal, frequently bloody, and at times spectacular." In the 12th century, kinsmen of the victim were given the option of executing the punishment themselves. "In England in the early fourteenth century, a victim of rape might be expected to gouge out the eyes and/or sever the offender's testicles herself."[1] Despite the harshness of these laws, actual punishments were usually far less severe: in late Medieval Europe, cases concerning rapes of marriageable women, wives, widows, or members of the lower class were rarely brought forward, and usually ended with only a small monetary fine or a marriage between the victim and the rapist."
Except that what passes for "rape" in the law is a joke.