Capital Punishment-
Should It Be Retained Or Abolished….????
Capital punishment also
known as the death penalty or execution can be described as the sentence of
death upon a person by a judicial establishment or a judicial process, as a
punishment for an offence. So the crimes for which the capital punishment is
given are called capital crimes or capital offences. The origin of the word is
from Latin word Capitalis meaning “regarding the head”. So in the olden day
capital crimes were punished by severing the head from the body. So capital
punishment has been there for centuries and it is still in use in many
countries. But now only 58 countries practice capital punishment and as many as
96 countries have withdrawn from the scenario of capital punishment.
The methods of capital
punishments practiced by different countries may be classified as:-
ü Electric
Chair
ü Court
Martial
ü Hanging,
and
ü Lethal
Injection
So it has been and is
still a controversial subject all over the world. So the question is whether it
should be Retained or Abolished.
Now this can be
discussed from two view points:-
Ø Global
Scenario; and
Ø Indian
scenario.
Talking about the Global Scenario, as many as 58
countries still practice capital punishment and they feel that it is essential for
maintaining law and order within the country. For extreme crime capital
punishment is necessary. In fact the truth is “ Harsher The Punishment, Lesser The Crime”.
This is visible from the countries that are practicing Capital punishments.
Now from the Indian scenario,
India is one among the 58 countries that practice Capital Punishment. In India
their aim is such that “even if ten guilty
persons get away, one innocent should not be punished”. So when
capital punishment is awarded to a person in India the judge who reads out the judgment
has to spell out the word “Rarest Of The Rarest”.
There are different
schools of view about abolishing Capital Punishment
1. Eye
for eye is not an answer
2. Only
God can take back life.
Apart
from this, the method of carrying out the punishment is also debatable and the
opposers are of the opinion that “we are living in a civilized society and the
person dying should also be given dignity”. So the question is - “Should
Capital punishment be retained or abolished?”
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