hiii there...it has been a long time!!!hmmm....today i am here to write on a matter that was or is i believe still a controversial subject and i hope to pick your brain on this.Knowledge grows with sharing.Well..the question is should death be a punishment for crime under the law?do we have the right to take away life even if itz for a serious crime?This is definetely not a religious moral science class on life....so please dont run away.I feel compelled to write on this issue in the light of the execution of
Teresa Louis.She , a middle aged lady from Virginia,US was executed a day ago by lethal injection.She was charged for conspiring and murdering her husband and stepson.She got 2 men to do the job for her and they have been jailed too.She was assessed by a psychiatrist and her IQ is 72 which is just 2 points above the legal minimum for being termed as low IQ to be convicted.Her last words were"i am sorry".We all do mistakes,small and big.Some can be forgiven and others cannot be.Well, i do agree that crimes ought to be punished and justice have to be delivered.But i dont see how taking a life can serve justice.The person dies remorseful or not without a chance to reform or realize the horrifc nature of his act.I believe that people are not born criminals but they become due to circumstances,selfish desires or living style.The ones that have personality or psychotic disorders need to be treated and reformed.There is evidence both for and against that criminals can be reformed.But the idea is that when a person is
sentenced to death ,it is important to give them a chance to change to a better person .This subject deserve more discussion and dialogue as it is a matter of life and death.Sentencing a person to death being lawful is an irony in itself!!!! what bell does it ring for you????
Dear Asha....
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with you... I would say that capital punishment should stop completely... The reasons i think a person is better sentenced to serve in Jail varies according to the crime done by the person...
According to the Indian Law for a man convicted of murder, the minimum punishment is life imprisonment and the maximum is death sentence and there is nothing in between.... Now if you see the nature of crime there are lots of variables...
One is the intend of doing the crime, the other is the nature in which the crime is done...
All the reasons a man gives and the following remorse or happiness that follows can be included in the intend. While the act itself can be included in the nature of the crime...
Any intend whatever is not pardonable and so also any act of killing however painless it may be.... So that has to be punished... The punishment should be so that the person who does the crime doesn't get away..
For a person who never intended to kill the other its cruel to give him a capital punishment. And for the other who always wanted to kill, there cant be a easier way out than death... I think a person like Kasav needs to spend his entire lifetime in isolation... there cant be anything worse than that... And for a person like Teresa Louis, she needs to be given a second chance...
Life is precious.. I dont think we have the right to kill ourselves forget another person....
i agree with u...we as human beings have no right to take another life. but i magine a world were murderers are confident that they ll get away with it..maybe a lighter sentence...wont that world go totally out of control. Someone who commits murder as an act of passion is always later remorseful..they surely desrve a second chance. But what about those cold blooded calculating murderers...hw can they even be let free in a civilised society.There's also the question of what the victim s family goes through. Capital punishmentis a closure for them, the knowledge that the one who committed a horrific crime to a loved one is finally punished..thats justice for them. But still the question remains if a human has a right to take another human's life even in the name of justice...isnt it just a glorified form of murder..Well!!the questions shall always remain..
ReplyDeleteyes...thats true..glorified form of murder.you are right about the concerns of the family.what about jailed for life?thats in a way cruel too...what do you think?
ReplyDeleteFrankly the thing about death is that it is gonna come some day or the other... If you take a man with a disease.... Something like MND, death is something he is waiting for eagerly for the suffering he is going through... I dont agree that Death is the lesson that can be used to teach the growing society...
ReplyDeleteIsolation can be more painful... I agree it is cruel but then thats the price you pay for killing someone.. I believe capital punishment should be stopped... And a provision brought where the person can serve in Jail the number of years decided by court, be it 13, 20 or 30 years...