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When India Wants the Rapists Hanged

Indians seem to want the perpetrators of the violent gang-rape of a women to be sentenced to death this Friday. But, Dilip D’Souza asks, what will that solve?

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“I just want them to be hanged,” the young man said, “because there is no other way to stop it.”

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He was referring, of course, to the unspeakable gang-rape in Delhi last December; specifically, to how the men now convicted of the crime should be punished.

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