Key Points
A state government, several high court judges, bar councils, MLAs and sessions judges had favored the exemption of pregnant women from the death penalty...
In a 2018 judgmentconfirmingthe death penalty to one Sonal alias Sonu for the murder of seven of her family members, the Punjab and Haryana High Court spoke of how a woman by its very nature is merciful...
This is something that people have tried to study, that what is the role that the male partners play in those cases, and is it that somehow the role of the woman in the crime gets overplayed or exaggerated, far more in sentencing, than the male actors, she says.. Take the case of sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, who wereconvictedfor kidnapping 13 children and killing five of thembetween 1990 and 1996..
Only a handful of women have been given the death penalty during this time.Aliwas sentenced to death by a trial court in July 2010 and has since beenconfirmedby the Supreme Court in 2015..
One high court judge said that the heinousness of a crime is not reduced merely by the fact that it is committed by a woman and that there have been numerous cases in which women have been found guilty of murdering their husbands in cold blood.. Responders, in fact, got poetic while demanding equal penalties for women..
