A majority vote in the Senate on Monday rejected a plan that would have allowed people found guilty of rape to be executed in public. Lawmakers fiercely opposed the concept, calling it a “counter-effective measure in deterring sexual crimes.” By a vote of 24 to 14, the upper chamber of parliament rejected the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2023, which sought to change the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. Hafiz Abdul Kareem, Kamal Ali Agha, Abdul Qadir, Mehr Taj Roghani, Kamran Murtaza, Maulana Faiz Muhammad, and other senators backed the bill that Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) senator Mushtaq Ahmed proposed. In order to ensure that such horrible crimes are prevented in the future, senators who had voted against the law demanded tougher prosecutions, investigations to combat sexual crimes, and an improved jail atmosphere.