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From: rama@ut-ngp.UUCP (rama)
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Subject: Public Hanging In India
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 15:28:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 15:28:17 1985
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Badri, in response to your feelings and to the numerous
others who seem to be aghast at the public hangings.
My own opinion is  exactly opposite of the general 
feeling on the net.
I think that it is long overdue.  Both the bride burning
cases in question were situations where the bride was
doused with kerosene and set afire.  When you try and think of
the nature of punishment, please cast a thought to the crime
and to the person upon whom it was perpetrated.
Indian women go through a tremendous amount of abuse, in terms
of beatings, insults, and death.  The most common way of killing
is by dousing with kerosene and setting afire. 
It is time that the death penalty is enforced; and if it be done
publicly, maybe it will have an impact on those who kill.
Public hangings necesarily raise a rather uncivilized picture,
and tend to raise grotesque spectres in peoples minds.
Well, before one's sensibilities are offended at the nature of the
punishment, one's sensibilities ought to be offended at the nature 
of the crime.  This is not to say that you are condoning the
crime, because you are not, and you say so.  It merely is a difference
of opinion regarding the nature of punishment.