Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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1. Murder is murder. This won’t fix the bad behavior of law enforcement when it comes to helping women.

2. This is a good law. It raises awareness of the specific act being committed, regardless of the fact that murderers still get life in Italy (the point is recognizing the nature of the act).

3. So… you’ll get a harsher punishment for killing a woman than a man? Doesn’t sound very equal. And how much impact will this really make? It’s not like there was no law against killing women before this.

4. What we lack here is a serious education, made in school, sexual, civic and emotional education, making harsher sentences won’t fix things, because those that murder someone often can’t control their emotions, and they will keep doing it, regardless of how harsh the sentence is (look at the US, they have the death penalty in many states, but violent crimes are still high). These things must be prevented before they happen, not after, and i don’t want even talk about the fact that is discriminatory at best. I mean, our government got scared when they talked about sexual education in schools lol, bigotry will always generate monsters and this will resolve absolutely nothing.

5. Speaking as a woman, this is a terrible idea.

   It only adds fuel to the fire of the perception that women are valued more highly than men.

   All murder should be treated equally, regardless of who is murdered.

6. I don’t understand why people have a problem with this. The reason why it needs to be highlighted is to emphasise on how most women who are killed is due to their gender. It’s mainly from their partner, family member, etc the women most times are just innocent.

   Whereas most men homicides are due to conflicts where both sides are involved. So withing a criminal context

   This has got nothing to do with a gender being more valued than another

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8. Incels coming out in droves to cry about this in the comments while not even knowing the definition of femicide lol

   In Romania alone there have been 52 femicide cases since the start of 2025. Studies done here show that on average, a man tries to or successfully kills a woman every 3 days. I hope the same law gets implemented here no matter how many men will whine about it

9. Why do we need to distinguish between who is killed?

10. Femicide does not mean “murdering someone who is female”. It means murdering someone *because* they’re female. So if I’m understanding correctly this law doesn’t mean more jailtime just because a victim happens to be a woman – it’s only more jailtime if it’s the result of explicitly gender-based violence.

11. Comment section smells like somebody’s parent’s basement

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13. People don’t seem to get it. Femicide doesn’t just mean the murder of a woman.

    It means the murder of a woman BECAUSE she’s a woman. That is, a hate crime carried out by someone who hates the victim for being a woman.

    (If you don’t think that happens, google e.g. Elliot Rodger.)

14. This is probably geting closed seeing how many of my fellow men seem so angry at a hate crime, killing a woman FOR BEING a woman, is being codified.

    My bigest problem is that this doesnt come with measures to prevent only to punish, and prevention measures have proven effective going from an average of 115 to 96 in the last 15 years, even with the oandemic years and with an enrmous increase in migration populatio and with measures so potential abusers can get therapy are lacking.

15. These comments are wild.

    If someone goes on a blind killing spree and some of the victims happen to be women, that wouldn’t be femicide.

    If the same someone goes on a killing spree targeting women _because_ they are women (like someone else pointed out: e.g., Elliot Rodger), meaning they think one or more women deserve to die due to some perceived reason tied to their gender (for Rodger it was that he thought he was entitled to sex from women and he wasn’t getting any), then that’s femicide.

    Is it so hard?

    Also two things can be true at the same time. It’s good to attempt to deter men who think they can kill their ex-girlfriends because “they belong to them”, just to name one common case. It’s also true that what really changes things is revolutionizing a deeply sexist way of thinking that starts early. Education should be the next step, even though I am far from hopeful, sadly

16. I’m on the fence with this. On one side I’m in favour or hate crime protection, on the other side we are talking about murder here… It should have the maximum penalty regardless of the reason (when there is a reason and it’s not non voluntary)

17. If one woman murder another is it still femicide? >!or homicide?!< >!or lesbicide?!<

18. Can someone give 2 examples of when the murder of a woman is femicide and when it is not? By what criteria do they differ? What evidence does the prosecution have to provide that it is femicide? Is the murder of a woman now by default femicide?

19. populist rethoric from the populist government as usual, they don’t care about solving the issue, they care about pleasing the drones

20. So what happens if a woman kills a man? Same “normal” jail time?

21. Maybe a dumb question, but since murder is already illegal, how does this help? A man who wants to murder his wife isn’t going to think twice because that crime now carries a different name.

    Is the idea that murders of women are not usually investigated properly? Again, how does renaming it help if that’s a systemic issue?

22. Good to see gendered hate crimes finally prosecuted properly

23. Femicide..another crazy ideea that is put to practice.

    Next law is manicide…and after 20 years of debate..lets bundle these two and create…HOMICiDE!!!

24. But murdering is murdering no and the punishment is always life in prison? Where punishment?

25. Women really need to be smarter who they get in relationship with. We call men that can’t get laid incels but what about the desperation of women that try to get laid at deadly danger to their own safety. I mean just no control.

26. Cool. I hope they criminalize fascism too one day

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