Very easy to say when you don’t live here.
Comment on Indian state passes law seeking death penalty for rapists after rape and murder of doctor
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Death penalties are never the answer. The goal of the criminal system to be to rehabilitate criminals so they dont offend again, or, if that’s impossible, to separate them from society. Not some archaic sense of revenge or ‘justice’.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s not about knowledge of what exactly was the crime. What you didn’t get was that when I said death penalties were never the answer, I actually meant it. Not ‘death penalties are too bad for this crime, but if it’s bad enough, they’re the answer’. Death penalties are never the answer, regardless of how heinous the crime. If the person can’t be rehabilitated, they should be separated from society so they’re not a danger, but your comment is all about revenge, paying these people back, which I already said should not be the goal.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Well yes. I think death penalty is about providing justice to the victim and scaring potential rapists. If they know they will be “safe” after committing the crime, trust me they will do it, and that’s why they are doing it to begin with in India.
I don’t care about your goals. The goal is to stop potential rapists, not provide them a safe haven. What a weird take. Idk where you are from but we don’t call prison time as confinement or isolation. It’s called punishment in the constitution, so yes revenge is the goal.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m not from the Nordic countries, which are the best at ‘rehabilitation, not revenge’, though I’d like to be, I’m glad I’m not from somewhere as bad as America either.
manucode@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Furthermore, it hasn’t shown to be more effective as a deterrent than a prison sentence.
Additionally, it encourages fugitive murderers to commit more murders in order to escape. After all, one can only get executed once, and trying to save one’s life provides ample motivation for murder.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If you are any familiar with Indian politics, you will know how rapists that served life sentence are garlanded after release. Death sentence is way better than seeing rapists get garlanded or even worse promoted in politics.