Indian court has sentenced four men to death

[right-then-petal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24078339

[cee-dee]

They deserve it for what they did.

[tommy.irene]

People have called her Braveheart, Fearless and India's Daughter, among other things, and sent up a billion prayers for a speedy recovery.

When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday, the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital, Delhi, it was time again, many said, to ask: why does India treat its women so badly?

Female foetuses are aborted and baby girls killed after birth, leading toan appallingly skewed sex ratio. Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.

TrustLaw, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman. This in the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women. It is also a country where a generation of newly empowered young women are going out to work in larger numbers than ever before.

[ed_blackadder_1]

A very brave and wise decision by the court, should send out a clear message.

[blackburn_stevie]

Let's just hope that the Appeals Court feels that they deserve the same punishment and follow it up with a quick carrying out of the sentence rather than leaving the 4 men in jail for 10 years with appeal after appeal after appeal.

[kiss*my*pixel]

Hmmmm - there is part of me that thinks they deserve the death penalty. Another part of me thinks this might be the easy option and would like them to live a life of purgatory for what they have done to this young girl. I'm sure an Indian jail would not be as luxurious and sumptuous as a British jail, so it would be comforting to think they'd live out the remainder of their lives in the most terrible fear, pain and torment. I'm torn between the two options, to be honest, but death seems too easy.

Not normally an advocate of the death penalty, by the way, but feel it (or similar) is justified in cases such as this.

An example most certainly has to be made - at the moment it would appear that India is the rape capital of the world. I would personally be absolutely terrified if my daughter announced that was to be her next trip

[blackburn_stevie]

You make a good point re Indian Jails not being as luxurious as ours there, Pixie.

How about 5 years in jail so that they can maybe get gang-raped a few times and then carry out the death sentence?

I have a question if anyone can put their hand up with an answer ..............

Has the driver been convicted of any sort of crime? Maybe something along the lines of allowing a crime to be committed on the bus while he was driving it along the highways and by-ways.

[right-then-petal]

The man described as the main suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in Tihar jail in March. Police said he had hanged himself, but defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered.

A 33-year-old widower, he lived in a small two-room shanty in the Ravi Dass slum colony in southern Delhi.

He was the alleged driver of the bus on which the 23-year-old woman was raped and her male friend assaulted.