Bangladesh sentences five men to death for 2012 gang rape of teen

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[–]buttbuttinator 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Executions perpetuate violence, they don’t prevent it.”

I'm not a supporter of the death penalty in general, but a lot of the language that anti-death-penalty people use is so disingenuous and vapid. How is executing rapists going to "perpetuate violence"?

[–]Cicerosolo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I see their point but it's all academic. I would like to think I'm a non violent person but sex offenders and paedos don't deserve the gift of life

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One big problem on the sub continent is cases take so long to resolve. I've heard of one rape case in India which took 20 years to get a verdict and that was before appeals. Of course it's part of the culture of corruption, the longer processes take the more of a push factor their is for families on both sides of the case to bribe officials to keep things moving.

[–]Cicerosolo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The treatment of women in most of the 3rd world is horrendous but the sub continent is by far the worst, even ahead of Saudi Arabia (according to the UN). But we all ignore it to the point now that in countties with sizable Indian populations there is huge amounts of family violence carried out and they perpetuate the cycle by importing females from that region to marry male immigrants and they receive no protection at all, the violence against them is even worse.