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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
TopicDeath penalty

Topic: Death penalty

Victim impact statements can achieve what death penalty can’t

India’s criminal justice system needs to look at victim impact statements in the US to help victims achieve closure.

Registry of sex offenders carries immense risks. It also puts the survivor in mortal danger

Privacy is a basic human right, and even criminals have those. To undermine this capacity because vicious, punitive justice sells on primetime TV debates is to tear through the foundation that this country.

I was sexually abused as a child. I don’t want a death penalty, I prefer healing for him

Instead of provisions for death penalty, it is restorative justice that needs to be built into the existing laws and implemented through a sensitised justice delivery system.

Death penalty is not justice, it is revenge

Even if a rapist is sentenced to death, men will not stop raping. They will only stop when they learn to stop regarding women as sexual objects

Death penalty is not the answer to Kathua, the system needs to change: Deepika Rajawat

The lawyer of the 8-yr-old Bakerwal girl who was gang raped and murdered questions the ordinance on child rape, and the efficacy of death penalty as a deterrent.

Parents of sexually abused children reject death penalty as solution to problem

Legal experts, activists say government’s death penalty ordinance is a knee-jerk reaction and ‘politics of distraction’.

Child rape will now be treated as a criminal act that meets the test of ‘rarest of rare’

High acquittal rates, high drop-out rates due to delayed court procedures, and an absurdly lenient sentence in child rape cases is a travesty of justice.

Death penalty ordinance is a reactive and disproportionate response to child rape

With no victim support and protection systems in place, the field is open for the accused to threaten, intimidate, and pressurize the victim to retract.

Behind Arunachal’s new death penalty law is a 170% rise in child rape cases

Lack of legal awareness leads to low reporting of cases with police; lynching of two rape accused last month forced state assembly to amend law.

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