India introduces death penalty for child rapists - BBC News.

India's Cabinet has approved the
introduction of the death penalty for those
who rape children, amid uproar over a
series of high-profile cases.
The change to the country's penal code
applies to those convicted of raping a child
under the age of 12.
There have been nationwide protests in
recent weeks over the gang rape and
murder of an eight-year-old girl.
The government has come under fire for not
doing enough to prevent sexual-assault
cases, many involving children.
A number of serious crimes in India carry
the death penalty, but raping a child was not
among them until now.
Nearly 19,000 cases were registered in India
in 2016 - more than 50 each day.
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rape?
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rapists
Why India's rape crisis shows no signs
of abating
What's in the new law?
The executive order was cleared at a special
cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
It allows capital punishment for anyone
convicted of raping children under the age
of 12.
Minimum prison sentences for rape against
girls under the age of 16 and women have
also been raised.
According to Reuters, which has seen a copy
of the order, there was no mention of boys
or men.
Why now?
Two recent rape cases have shocked the
nation.
Protests erupted earlier this month after
police released horrific details of the rape of
an eight-year-old Muslim girl by Hindu men
in Kathua, in Indian-administered Kashmir in
January.
Anger has also been mounting after a
member of the governing Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) was accused last week over the
rape of a 16-year-old girl in northern Uttar
Pradesh state.
India's poor record of dealing with sexual
violence came to the fore after the 2012
gang rape and murder of a student on a
Delhi bus. This led to huge protests and
changes to the country's rape laws.
But sexual attacks against women and
children have since continued to be
reported across the country.
How is the death penalty used in India?
Executions are rarely carried out in India,
with just three recorded in the last decade.
The four men convicted in the Delhi bus case
were sentenced to death, though this has
not yet been carried out.
The judge in that case said it fell into "the
rarest of rare category" which justifies
capital punishment in India. India's penal
code, according to the Hindustan Times, had
already prescribed the death penalty for
gang rape.
Hanging is the main method of execution. A
man convicted of financing the deadly 1993
Mumbai bombings was the last person to be
executed in India - in 2015.

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It should be worse than death penalty

Well at least a step in right direction!

I would say shoot at sight penalty or give the power to kill the rapist by the one , who went thru the trauma ! Blood boils reading these child rapes every other day !

Why only for child rape? It should be death penality for all rape case!

Let the death penalty be death penalty by torture(cut private parts, shoving a rod inside the ass etc). No mercy should be given to PEOPLE who rape ANYONE.

what is needed is a system where evidences are collected and a fair trials done and the perpetrators punished..i don't have faith in desi justice system where they "apparently" arrest the perps and quickly give them a sentence..i have doubts if they actually arrested the real perpetrators or they just wanna calm the angry public down asking for the rapists to be killed/castrated..who knows with corrupt cops and lawmakersif they even got the right guys ..

Meanwhile Nirbhaya rapists are still alive...

with death sentence a responsibility also arrives that SC make orders regarding evidence in proper manner so that police don't find scape goat to save them by forging evidences...

It should be in public and not like the last time where no proof of death was given.