I think it is the other way around. Some women flirt by acting like young girls (baby-voice, playing dumb/ditsy, etc) and we have been conditioned to perceive those behaviours as flirting.
The headline makes it sound like the "in favour" votes were for death penalty, which is not correct. This was a vote for a moratorium - a temporary suspension - of death penalty.
This would be considered petty even for a toddler.