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davidn3600

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4. Maybe I'm missing something...but what's good about this law?

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:09 AM

Mar 2015

Men who commit the newly defined crime of “femicide”, or the killing of a woman by a man because of her gender, can now expect to go to jail for anywhere from 12 years to 20 years.

What do you normally get for murder in Brazil? 5 years?

Compared to America...
If a man kills his wife in the United States, and is convicted, he's very likely to get at the least life in prison.

We also already have VAWA. So I'm not quite sure what other law you want here... You already get life in prison for almost any first-degree murder. (sorry, but I don't favor capital punishment in any situation)

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New Law Cracks Down on Domestic Abusers in Brazil (femicide and stricter penalties) [View all] niyad Mar 2015 OP

good Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #1

now if only this country would do something similar (including the last sentence in the article) niyad Mar 2015 #2

Brazil stepped far ahead of our country with this. Judi Lynn Mar 2015 #3

and thank you for the information about columbia. niyad Mar 2015 #5

Maybe I'm missing something...but what's good about this law? davidn3600 Mar 2015 #4

right on schedule. please cite statistics from reliable, legitimate sources that show how many niyad Mar 2015 #6

. . . niyad Mar 2015 #7