Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-state-passes-law-seeking-death-penalty-for-rapists/
The Indian state of West Bengal passed a law seeking the death penalty for rapists in the wake of a doctor’s brutal rape and murder.
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India has a culture issue not a law issue. Stamp out misogyny and you’ll reduce rape. All this will do is make rapist more violent as they’ll do more to not get caught.
Tougher crimes for sexual violence is definitely warranted (not death penalty though), and not just in India. But like you said, that alone won’t solve the issue as it’s engrained in the culture. The culture that is promoted by PM Modi and his party though, so any real changes are unlikely.
This is the first article about this that I’ve seen mention that they arrested someone the next day.
In India, perpetrators are usually arrested for protection from the mobs and quite release than for justice.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 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’.
manucode@infosec.pub 3 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 3 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.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Very easy to say when you don’t live here.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 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.