Facing public pressure, India's government in February proposed legislative changes that would increase the maximum punishment for convicted rapists to the death penalty from life imprisonment and widen the definition of sexual assault.

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His main rival, former general Otto Perez Molina, who was previously the head of army intelligence, promises to increase the size of the police force by 50% and revive the use of capital punishment.

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