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It’s rare for Italian lawmakers from across the political spectrum to agree on anything. But on Tuesday, the lower house of Parliament unanimously ratified a law introducing the crime of femicide into Italy’s criminal code, punishable by life in prison.

(title from entry in NYT's The Morning newsletter)

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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because it doesn't make a difference.

So a woman murdered by a man is somehow more murdered than one murdered by another woman, a sister, a lover?

This is an arbitrary distinction. Someone was murdered, why they were murdered doesn't change the fact they were murdered, and frankly if you're going to say it will change sentencing, it shouldn't.

Murder is murder, the end.

[-] Devial@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes it should change sentencing, because the primary goal of the justice system should be rehabilitation, not punishment, and there are absolutely people who have commited murder and are capable of being fully rehabilitated, and those that can't, and they should not be sentenced the same.

Or do you seriously think, for example, people who end up murdering their abusers out of revenge or desperation should actually receive the same punishment as someone who murders a random person purely because they hate something about their identity, or an abuser who murder their victim ?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

It’s a huge problem in Italy and a lot of women are being killed. The maximum sentence is 25 years so what this does is tack on another charge. Motive always is examined in murder trials. If there was a billion dollar propaganda industry telling women to abuse and subjugate men and that was resulting in an epidemic of murder then that would have to be addressed by the law.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Motivation is what can split murder and manslaughter in some countries.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

When a cop murders a black man it's self defence, when a man murders a woman it's a brief display of bad judgment in a moment of passion. Society has never seen murder as murder "the end".

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