Don't use death penalty as a quick-fix solution: Amnesty

September 13, 2013 16:36

Far-reaching procedural and institutional reform, and not the death penalty, is needed to tackle the endemic problem of violence against women in India, stated human rights organisation Amnesty International India, after a New Delhi court sentenced to death four men in the December 16 gang-rape case. Read

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