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Questions Raised After India OKs Death Penalty for Child Rape

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When New Delhi-based lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastav filed a petition in the Supreme Court earlier this year asking for capital punishment for child rapists following the brutal gang rape of an eight-month old baby, the government lawyer argued "the death penalty is not the answer to everything." Three months later, an outburst of national outrage over the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kashmir and the rape of a 16-year-old in Uttar Pradesh, prompted a change in...

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