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(60,536 posts) Sun Feb 3, 2013, 04:17 PM Feb 2013

India’s President approves death penalty in some rape cases [View all]

Source: Raw Story

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, February 3, 2013 14:41 EST

India’s president on Sunday approved harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty, after a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi sparked national outrage and triggered demands for tougher laws.

President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the new rape law two days after cabinet ministers recommended changes to improve safety for women.

“The Indian president has given his assent to the ordinance on crime against women. It comes into effect immediately but it will also be tabled before the parliament,” a senior officer in the president’s office told AFP.

A government-appointed panel and the cabinet had recommended tougher laws after the death of a 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped and attacked in a bus on December 16 and died nearly two weeks later.

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India’s President approves death penalty in some rape cases [View all] DonViejo Feb 2013 OP

Not pro-death penalty. crim son Feb 2013 #1

we've had multiple convicted rapists declared innocent in the past few years CreekDog Feb 2013 #10

where? In India? SemperEadem Feb 2013 #13

Is there a big chance of a conviction in India? musical_soul Feb 2013 #27

I guess he never read "To Kill A Mockingbird". KamaAina Feb 2013 #2

i dont think jim-crow reasoning is behind this ruling at all La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #3

The death penalty for anything except murder is backwards KamaAina Feb 2013 #6

that's your opinion. i think the death penalty is backwards regardless La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #7

Well, okay, the death penalty for not-murder is even more backwards KamaAina Feb 2013 #16

why? there are several instances in which murder is justified La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #20

If it's justified, by definition, it's not murder KamaAina Feb 2013 #22

Successful false allegations of both occur Occulus Feb 2013 #25

it seems like you are arguing with yourself. i dont support the death penalty at all La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #28

People survive rape. They don't survive murder FrodosPet Feb 2013 #30

i am not advocating death penalty for either. however i do not think murder is necessarily La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #31

In this case, cosmicone Feb 2013 #18

I am not too fond of the death penalty cosmicone Feb 2013 #4

I agree 100% with this. nt. polly7 Feb 2013 #5

It will? 2ndAmForComputers Feb 2013 #8

Apples and oranges cosmicone Feb 2013 #17

Maybe not race, but probably caste FrodosPet Feb 2013 #29

All the rapists in this case are uppercaste. cosmicone Feb 2013 #32

I don't see the prevailing notion SemperEadem Feb 2013 #14

I am consistently anti-death penalty Trajan Feb 2013 #9

agreed La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #19

This is pandering, not progressive politics. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #11

true La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2013 #21

One barbarity answered with another. :-/ n/t DeSwiss Feb 2013 #12

As an anti-death penalty woman I am conflicted on this. Rape is heinous, but so is death pen. n/t SylviaD Feb 2013 #15

Get rid of executions for all crimes. NYC Liberal Feb 2013 #23

I'm in favor. MrSlayer Feb 2013 #24

For the guy that ripped out that poor woman's intestines... dkf Feb 2013 #26