Franklin Zimring and David Johnson write for Economic and Political Weekly, January 26, 2013
A death penalty for rapists in India is a truly terrible idea. With tens of thousands of rapes each year but only two executions in the past 15 years, arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement of the death penalty would be a certainty, not least because inefficient, misogynistic, and corrupt police and prosecutors would be put in charge of this lethal lottery.