Rapists don’t get the consideration they’re due because the weapon they effectively use to destroy another human’s life is one that takes a long time to act, and usually results in their victims taking their own lives through one means or another.

Flip side to that, of course, is the number of false accusations that get made, because there are a lot of women who use those with flippant disregard for the effect the accusation has on the lives of their male victims.

Left to me, a rapist would get a summary execution, and a false accuser would get precisely the same punishment. I’ve seen both sorts of assaults effectively end lives.

Serious injury to include some sort of mental impairment too. The infamous Caryl Chessman, the Red Light rapist was executed for rape. Under the law extant at the time, causing psychological damage as a result of rape was sufficient to get you the death penalty. And execution as was the case for Chessman.

He was a crank, but a genius crank. And, more importantly, correct in a lot of his ideas. Plus, he had the qualities to popularize them, which is not insignificant.

Fight, flight, freeze: one of these is not applicable in modern times.

Actually, the response has to be unconscious, like an infielder on a ground ball.