opposingviews.com: Human Rights Groups Urge India Not To Execute New Delhi Rapists

15.9.13

Human Rights Groups Urge India Not To Execute New Delhi Rapists: “Executing these men won’t bring back the woman they raped or reverse India’s rape crisis. The only way to stop rape before it starts is with a massive public education campaign,” Avaaz said on its website.

Indian newspapers Friday also speculated as to weather executing Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh would make the country safer for women.

An editorial in The Hindu said the sentence only serves as a “false comfort of retribution.”

"In meting out the hangman's justice ... the sessions court has regrettably missed an opportunity to turn the discourse away from retributive punishment to constructive dialogue on policing and legal reforms," the editor wrote, "Crimes death can't wish away.”

Human Rights Watch said the verdict was “troubling.”