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