The case even prompted the country’s Parliament to strengthen rape laws by setting tougher penalties, such as adding the death penalty as a possible punishment. Before his death, Singh, the bus driver, made another argument against the death penalty and his rape charge in a documentary screened on the BBC. “A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night,” he told the filmmaker, Leslee Udwin. … The death penalty will make things even more dangerous for girls. Death.”ADADIndian researcher Madhumita Pandey interviewed hundreds of Indian men convicted of rape as part of her doctoral thesis to try to better understand the roots of rape culture and toxic masculinity.

Source: Washington Post December 13, 2019 17:15 UTC