In India, Death Sentence for Rapists is more harmful for Women

Rape is no doubt a heinous crime and we need to deal with it, but should it be tactful or just as an outrage? Recent rape cases in India bought outrage against rapists on national level. Parliament itself witnessed anger and frustration against rape within its halls.

Amid all these chaos, demand for death sentence for rapist is on top list. Other demands against rapists is chemical castration etc. legislation has its own boundaries and doesn't work under anger and outrage. Legislation is not a discussion which goes on streets or at friend’s place, where four, five self considered scholars put on their views. Awakening should not be seen as public protest on streets and candle stuffs.

Various religious and political heads are trying to enforce their own opinions based upon their own ideologies; can they guarantee that if their opinion is held it could bring an end to rapes? Does rape happen only for one reason: sexual gratification? If no, then one solution is just useless to deal with multi cause crime.

If Death sentence for Rapist is legalized in a country like India, how many Rapists would leave their victims alive? How many women, girls would be left alive after rape is done? Won’t such legislation result in increase in crime: Murder? Rather than curbing crime chart such laws will ironically increase murders along with rapes. Dealing with crime and dealing with anger and frustration are two different things. We must consider backlashes of laws before we bring them into effect.

Chemical castration as well in a country like India would result in further assaults on raped women by rapists, once they rape they may damage critical organs of women, quiet possible. In the end raped women would have more grievous mental damage, because there would be permanent or grievous physical damage to their bodies as well by rapists.

I want to convey just a simple thing that we are not dealing with just one rapist and giving justice to one victimized woman, rather we are into amendment of a law at national level, we must never assume or take things for granted, also never ignore pros and cons.

Those who demand such laws, if they are genuinely interested in their demands must take future pros and cons for considerations before they bark their demands on streets. Most of agitators are sympathizers of opposition parties trying to project ruling party as inefficient, so they get advantage in next election.

I’ll write dealing with rapists in another post, hope readers get the message that I want to give.