Turkey hands out life sentences for aggrivated rape. He's probably looking at 30 years for domestic battery...and will have a 2 in 5 chance of surviving his prison sentence.
The issue with the Turkish penal system isn't that they don't protect women...it's that the sentence for killing someone, male or female, is less than the sentence for rape, domestic abuse, statutory rape, child molestation or even deflowering a virgin.
Whether that's more or less enlightened than the American system of justice...remains to be seen.
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Date: 2010-08-10 02:43 pm (UTC)The issue with the Turkish penal system isn't that they don't protect women...it's that the sentence for killing someone, male or female, is less than the sentence for rape, domestic abuse, statutory rape, child molestation or even deflowering a virgin.
Whether that's more or less enlightened than the American system of justice...remains to be seen.