delhi gang rape sentence

I just read another article on the Delhi gang rape sentence. This one titled 'Delhi gang rape death sentence won't make India safer for women', by Monisha Rajesh. Of all the articles on similar themes that I had read this one has got to be the most patchy and badly thought through. 

What bugged me first is the title itself. It was not for rape that the death sentence was passed and it certainly was not  to appease those baying for blood. India does not yet have the death sentence for rape - I am shocked that a journalist writing on this would not even know this or wrongly represent it in the title. Secondly the title suggests that another sentence would have been better in this case or specifically that another sentence might have made India safer for women. If that is the case why not suggest the sentence and if that was not the intention of the writer then maybe the writer should have thought carefully and chosen another title.

The writer then has gone on through the article just using bits and and pieces of commonplace information that she has not even bothered to connect up well together. It feels like she has just lifted them off other articles that actually dealt more thoroughly with each issue. I am left unsure of what the writer really wants to say about the issue except be controversial? She seems to have not one original thought in the article nor really want to even rearrange other thoughts in any new way that makes one think deeply on this topic. 

But what bugged me the most is the writer seems to present it as an either/or situation. That now this awful sentence is passed the discussion will not continue. Does she mean to say that if there had been some lighter sentence then at least the conversation would continue? The Indian public is not stupid that we feel that just this sentence will make the country safer -  not one of those crying for justice ever felt that i think - and nobody is 'hushed up' by the sentence, and even when media stops 'talking' about rape many conversations continue.

Not sure how to conclude this post but this really is bad journalism at its worst - at least in my opinion. It's an issue i feel passionately about and it hurts me to see it handled this way.

What do I think about the Delhi sentence? That I cannot really say in a handful of paragraphs but I do feel that nothing less would have given some sense of justice to the victim's family especially after the  judgement given for the juvenile involved.