Capital Punishment
The recent news of capital punishment given to the convicts of the 1993 Mumbai blasts made me think about the relevance of the death penalty. I think the death penalty is important for crimes that have far reaching impact on human life and well being. It is also important for degraded personalities (mostly thru propaganda) that can be harmful for the society. I would summarize this as the 3 Ts: Treason, Terrorism and Troubled. The troubled would include serial (psycho) killers, rapists etc.
I understand that sometimes its important to scare people away from a crime by giving a harsh punishment, but still i am not in favour of open or public execution (as practiced by the british). Let the movies do their part in showing the graphics!
The biggest problem, however, is the irreversibility of the death penalty, if the wrong person is convicted. Life has become cheap and lawyers expensive in our world today, which results in innocent people ending up on the wrong side of the courtroom.
The question that we need to answer is: should we keep a terrorist in the jail because he may be innocent and then risk a hijack or a bomb blast that kills hundreds?
I understand that sometimes its important to scare people away from a crime by giving a harsh punishment, but still i am not in favour of open or public execution (as practiced by the british). Let the movies do their part in showing the graphics!
The biggest problem, however, is the irreversibility of the death penalty, if the wrong person is convicted. Life has become cheap and lawyers expensive in our world today, which results in innocent people ending up on the wrong side of the courtroom.
The question that we need to answer is: should we keep a terrorist in the jail because he may be innocent and then risk a hijack or a bomb blast that kills hundreds?
posted by Bhuwan | 4:26 PM
2 Comments:
Good thought ..I agree with most of it.About the physco killers , I am not sure because they are sick and need help.Terrorist and Rapist should definitely be hanged ,coz they are in human.
About the reversal , well true , we have so many innocent people in our jails , but then lifetime of imprisonment(esp when you are innocent and cannot arrange help to prove that) is no better than death. Yes, for the influenced , jail does not matter , coz they will manage to be free somehow.And its for them , death sentence is needed to finish the story forever.
Death is not my favorite topic let alone Death Penalty! Men have killed others in rage, in retribution and in vengeance. Some killings come under politically correct legal folds while others don't.
My question is what purpose does Capital Punishment serve in today's world. Looking at it in today's world is relevant because as our population continues to grow, there is a lot of us huddled together in this progressively consumeristic and less-sensitive-by-the-day world and thus the monstrousness of a human killing another human comes very close to our door-step.
Its valid argument that one must fear for one's life first before taking someone else's life in rage. But a more important question to ask is whether this ancient law is able to do that in today's date?
We need some evolution here...
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