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To: E who wrote (3577)	3/20/2002 12:50:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Rapes leave semen which can be tested later Not always. Some rapists use a condom probably to reduce this evidence and maybe because of concern about disease as well. Also many rape victims, clean themselves off ruining the evidence or don't report the rape in a timely manner. Of course murder victims never report a crime, but in you have a missing person, and in many cases a body. and rapists are less often executed, so the flaws in the process that convicts criminals are more likely to be exposed. The dead are rarely able to prove that they were wrongfully convicted. You have a point here, but the appeals process in capital cases can be longer then the sentence in rape cases. The person convicted of murder and sentenced to execution has a lot of time before he actually faces execution (unless he waives the appeals) and a lot of incentive to cast any doubt on his conviction (even if the doubt is not enough to have the conviction overturned it. I'm not sure that rape cases are good examples to show the risk that we might execute a convicted murder who is in fact innocent of the crime. However I do recognize the risk of wrongfully executing someone, and that is the main reason that I am on the fence on this issue instead of being for capital punishment. Tim