India will now execute child rapists. Thoughts?

There is one problem that I can find with this, India still has a caste system. They had an issue awhile back that while you can go to college if you are of lower caste, colleges still discriminate against you if you are said caste. There's people that when they are born they even have certificates showing which caste they are from because one caste is seen as more pure than the other. Several men and women in India have committed suicide because of their social hierarchy.

I could see that being born in corruption, there's no reason to think that people can't easily be set up in that type of system and framed.

In order to start tackling issues like rape while it's def. an issue, they HAVE to deal with their societal issues first. If you don't change the social norms, the problems are not going to be taken care of and there's bound to be causalities on both sides.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-10-26/meet-indian-women-trying-take-down-caste-apartheid

The other half of this problem kind of goes with the first.

There was a medical student going to night school who was raped and she eventually died from her injuries because Indian men saw her as a "prostitute" because she was on the bus at night with one other male friend.

In my opinion while it's good their willing to make harsher penalties for that kind of rape, it doesn't get rid of why it's happening in the first place. It's clear that those rapists lack empathy and are horrible people. However it's also clear that societal norms give rise to those kinds of behaviors. So making harsher punishments for just one type of abuse still doesn't take care of the issue.

Need I mention police corruption also?

What happens when you can't trust the police of your own country?

Case in point:


https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/world/asia/for-rape-victims-in-india-police-are-often-part-of-the-problem.html

The court system has as 30 million case backlog and a rape conviction rate of less than 30%.

This looks more like PR move than anything else.

India is way behind on women's rights. I think this is to make people feel better, but I doubt anything will come of it.

I'm against the death penalty so I don't agree with this measure. It far too easy to accuse and convict innocent people or fail to take issues such as mental health into account. Extended sentences or even life, by all means, but I can't support execution.

Only thing I'm worried about when we start talking execution is people that are innocent. I also don't know they consider rape, if it's real rape only or also "statutory rape" where the person consented.

I'm with you on this - capital punishment is not a real deterrent in my opinion.

with clear and overwhelming evidence, I'm all for it.

Good, they should.

Agree totally.

It is sad when a third world country gets lost in methods of justice.

Executions won't curb behavior. If it did, countries that execute a lot of their citizens wouldn't have to. India gives death sentences for a whole lot of things but don't execute many prisoners. But serving a death row sentence in an Indian prison? No thank you.

Killing others has rarely ever produced anything good.

india seems to have a deeply rooted attitude problem.. that wont be fixed with executions

I'm basically opposed to capital punishment, but if prisons in India are like those in the U.S., a child rapist will have a life of hell in prison. Even the worst offenders do not like child rapists and will ensure that they suffer for their crimes. Convict the guilty and send them to prison for life.

Good all pedos belong on the end of a noose

All for it. Every country should execute child rapists. They are pure evil

Should be that way in the US too