India will now execute child rapists. Thoughts?

"The Indian government approved a new measure on Saturday that will prescribe capital punishment for anyone convicted of raping children under the age of 12."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/21/india-approves-death-penalty-child-rapists/538932002/

I understand that hanging is the main method of execution in India

I'm torn on this. What about non-adult child rapists, the mentally ill and the possibility of executing an innocent person?

But India has a bad record of protecting women and girls, who are routinely victims of so-called honor rapes, forcing them to walk naked in town streets or stripping school girls naked in the classroom for not doing homework.

Maybe this will help?

EDIT: Apparently, the law only applies to rapists of girls. Men who rape boys get a pass on the hangman.

EDIT2: Found this. It explains the new law.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/what-is-the-new-ordinance-on-rape-under-criminal-laws-5146208/

There's also this:
"India's Supreme Court Rules That Sex With A Bride Under 18 Is Rape"
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/12/557347037/india-s-court-gives-brides-age-15-to-18-protection-from-marital-rape

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

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:

NEW DELHI — Not long after telling the police that she had been raped, a woman from South Delhi looked out her apartment window and saw the man who had attacked her laughing with an officer who had given him a ride back from the police station.

“That officer then came over and asked me why I wanted to file a complaint,” the 30-year-old mother of two said in a recent interview. “He said I would be ridiculed unless I agreed to settle things without an investigation.”

After months of intimidation from her rapist and indifference from the police, she got a politically powerful acquaintance to intervene, and her rapist was finally arrested. A court case is under way.

A far more prominent case, the brutal gang rape on a bus in New Delhi last month, and the later death of the victim, has led to an anguished re-examination in India of many of the nation’s age-old attitudes toward violence against women. But even as India grapples with the polarizing issue, a powerful force stands in the way of any fundamental change: a police force that is corrupt, easily susceptible to political interference, heavily male and woefully understaffed.

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