Death Penalty

[ShivKC]

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Whenever a rape or cruel murder is reported,the instant and general consensus amongst us was that the criminals deserved the death penalty. The volume increases if he happened to be a terrorist.

As on date, barely 43 countries hold on to this punishment and the highest number of executions in 2009 took place in China (5000) followed by Iran (402), Iraq (77) and Saudi Arabia (69). Should India fall join these bandwagon or ban capital punishment?

Crime and punishment have a deeper aspect to it. This is the redemptive power and potential of the human soul. The story of the bandit-turned-sage Valmiki, who escaped the death penalty and gave Hinduism the epic Ramayana, conveys this aptly

 

[sangom]

Whenever a rape or cruel murder is reported,the instant and general consensus amongst us was that the criminals deserved the death penalty. The volume increases if he happened to be a terrorist.

As on date, barely 43 countries hold on to this punishment and the highest number of executions in 2009 took place in China (5000) followed by Iran (402), Iraq (77) and Saudi Arabia (69). Should India fall join these bandwagon or ban capital punishment?

Crime and punishment have a deeper aspect to it. This is the redemptive power and potential of the human soul. The story of the bandit-turned-sage Valmiki, who escaped the death penalty and gave Hinduism the epic Ramayana, conveys this aptly

Shri Shiv,

The government cannot bring to life a person to whom the death penalty is awarded, if he is proved innocent later on. Death Penalty should, therefore, be replaced by a suitable provision for whole-life imprisonment and hard work. No parole, no reduction in sentence etc., should be given to such convicts unless the original judgment is proved wrong. Such cases will be rarest of the rare but if such a contingency happens, the law should protect the concerned judge, police and lawyers if they had erred bonafide in the original trial and conviction, and the government must rehabilitate the ex-convict with honour.