India 'honour killers' face death for 1991 murders (Graphic)

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

A judge in India has sentenced eight men to death and 20 others to life imprisonment for three so-called honour killings that took place in 1991.

The men were found guilty of murdering a Dalit boy and a girl from a higher caste who had eloped together, as well as the boy's cousin.

All three were set alight and hanged, the court in Uttar Pradesh state heard.

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According to one recent study, hundreds of people are killed each year for falling in love or marrying outside their caste or against their families' wishes.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15759470

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Edited to add a warning that the penultimate paragraph in the main BBC article has even more graphic descriptions of what happened.

[Skittles]

1. they need to stop with the word HONOR

there's no honor involved in these killings - just religious nuttery and cowardice

[Turborama]

6. There is no mention of religion in the article.

However, it does state that "Age-old notions of tradition and family honour are still deeply entrenched in many parts of Indian society." and "Often "honour" crimes are endorsed, or even encouraged, by village-based caste councils or panchayats."

This is about barbaric traditions/culture, not "religious nuttery".

[Skittles]

10. religion promotes misogyny

do NOT think any of this garbage is "religon-free"

[JNelson6563]

11. Sounds more like class warfare to me.

That's mighty fucked up.

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[freshwest]

9. Shades of Touchstone. They never had any:

TOUCHSTONE
By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you
swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no
more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he
never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away
before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.

[cosmicone]

2. This is very good. n/t

[iandhr]

3. any reason it took so long.

the crimes were so long ago.

[antigone382]

4. I can't speak with any real authority, but in a nation of a billion people...

It doesn't much surprise me that it might take twenty years to process a case with so many defendants...I don't know for sure if that's the cause or not though. I know almost nothing about the judicial system of India, except that it's rather different from ours.

[OhioChick]

5. Genitals burned before being hung from a tree?

What a sick ass story.

[aquart]

7. Sentence seems fair.

Although this is one of the things that make me think fondly of medieval methods.

[JI7]

8. hopefully others who do similar will face the same justice, and sooner

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