Tougher Laws For Rape Crimes

The maximum for rape is 20 years, yet the average sentence is just 8 years who thinks this is not enough! I am asking everyone to sign this petition and help us get tougher laws on rape crimes. Article 128 [13] is entitled Sexual violation defined. Article 128 (1) states that Sexual violation is the act of a person who rapes another person or has unlawful sexual connection with another person. Article 128 (2) defines rape as follows: Person A rapes person B if person A has sexual connection with person B, effected by the penetration of person B's genitalia by person A's penis,— (a) without person B's consent to the connection; and (b) without believing on reasonable grounds that person B consents to the connection. Article 128 (3) outlaws "unlawful sexual connection" (which refers to sexual acts other than those described in 128 (2) - i.e without the penetration of genitalia by the penis - committed under the same circumstances of 128 (2). Article 128 (4) makes it clear that spousal rape is illegal: "One person may be convicted of the sexual violation of another person at a time when they were married to each other." Punishment for rape in most countries today is imprisonment, but until the late twentieth century, some states of the U.S., for instance, could apply the death penalty in cases of aggravated rape indicating the severity with which the crime was viewed. Castration is sometimes a punishment for rape and, controversially, some U.S. jurisdictions allow shorter sentences for sex criminals who agree to voluntary chemical castration. Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 11.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. This follows the typical pattern for violent crimes in the US, where those convicted typically serve no more than half of their sentence.[10] Between 2002 and 2003, more than one in ten convicted rapists in Victoria, Australia, served a wholly suspended sentence, and the average total effective sentence for rape was seven years.