What POD would it take for rape to be considered one of the worst crimes to be committed, even worse than murder by most of society and to be treated accordingly.
Until science/mores advance enough that people could and would look at the corpse and see what had happened before her death.Of course you have the situation of where if rape is worse, the rapist will kill the victim, to go to jail for the lesser crime.![]()
It still places a perverse incentive to kill your victim. After all, you lose nothing in terms of potential punishment, and you silence a potential witness.Until science/mores advance enough that people could and would look at the corpse and see what had happened before her death.