Thank you Saleem for pointing out this op-ed. " So if you agree that the death penalty should apply to rapists, be consistent about it, and prepare for the consequences. The people you’ll be hanging, more than 90 per cent of the time, won’t be strangers, the gangs of youth whom we can safely think of as marauding outliers, the threatening outsider beyond the threshold of our homes. "Swinging from those gallows, you’ll have local shopkeepers, tutors, friends of the family. In 2011, if you’d had capital punishment for rapists, that would have been 7,835 neighbours, 1,560 distant unclejis and mamajis and 267 fathers, brothers, grandfathers and cousins on death row, plus thousands of family acquaintances and distant colleagues. And that’s without adding in the policemen, the army officers, the paramilitary troops and the odd politician playing out caste wars on the bodies of women... "It’s going to be a long queue of familiar faces, the queue of those we want to hang for the act of rape." thehindu/opinion/op-ed/executing-the-neighbour/article4218247.ece
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:00:20 +0000
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