Lately, it seems, we’ve done a lot of calling for the death penalty and imprisonment without parole. It could be that we are just particularly hard on crime and pessimistic about rehabilitation. Or it could be that it is a sign of the times and this is what the times call for. And as we’ve had occasion to point out more than once over the past several weeks, it isn’t just here.
Witness the sentencing in New Delhi, India last Friday of four men to hang for the horrific (again, an adjective we’ve been using a quite a bit) rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a public bus.
And without wanting to appear flippant for so serious a matter, we say, Hooray for Judge Yogesh Khanna.