Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.
The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.
The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.
The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.
Femicide also has a “purpose and effect”, because you’re proving a different crime.
I think you have a limited understanding of the law and the world.
It’s true, I don’t understand why killing a woman is not murder. Partly because you have failed to make any case for that. It makes sense to frame it in the context of a hate crime in order to ensure severe sentencing, but saying it’s a different crime from murder, but with the same sentence, makes no sense to me.
To pick up on something you said eariler:
The Italian government is actively working to oppose sexual and emotional education in schools, requiring explicit parental consent for such education, ensuring it does not reach the children who need it the most. This law serves as a token gesture which does nothing, while realistic and easily available measures to reduce femicide are being obstructed.