Death Penalty Abolition of capital punishment has fuelled sensational debate without producing any applicableends which can be exactly tested to make people convincing. This article attempts to discuss that death penalty is not appropriate form of punishment. Death penalty cannot be justified in terms of retributive purposes. It is pointless to hang a person for the offence of murder .It is better to punished with life imprisonment and the state can utilise the services of that person. Statistics in several countries have proved that abolition of death penalty has not proved decrease in crime rate. The legislature at this juncture has been heading towards the abolition of capital punishment. Sincere endeavour have been made by the Parliament
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Life is considered as most precious possession and apprehension of losing ones life is the worst possible thought which would prevent criminals from committing a crime. For the above reasons , systems from time immemoriablehave advocated death penalties, as well as harsh and brutal punishments.Question arose here is whether it is justified to take life in the legal blanket, whether it actually prevents crime? Death penalty is very much alive in India. The retention of death penalty, even when we stand in the 21st century, is contrary to the rest of the world. There has been a growing realization among the international community regarding the abolition of death penalty.Governments of various countries have not only limited themselves to remove capital punishment from their own judicial systems but have also contributed towards launching a global movement for the eradication of death penalty. This opinion was first acknowledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Article 3 of UDHR says that everyone shall have the right to life.It was further elaborated in Article 5 that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This was the starting of international law …show more content…
A significant step towards the abolition of death penalty could be to limit imposition of death penalty to a few rare offences such as treason, political assassination etc.To ensure adequate punishment as a matter of policy the Goverrnment may consider granting remission of life sentence only after 60-70 years instead of 14 years imprisonment as at present. Hence, the Judiciary and the Legislature should jointly attempt towards the abolition of this cruel, inhuman and barbaric form of
Life is considered as most precious possession and apprehension of losing ones life is the worst possible thought which would prevent criminals from committing a crime. For the above reasons , systems from time immemoriablehave advocated death penalties, as well as harsh and brutal punishments.Question arose here is whether it is justified to take life in the legal blanket, whether it actually prevents crime? Death penalty is very much alive in India. The retention of death penalty, even when we stand in the 21st century, is contrary to the rest of the world. There has been a growing realization among the international community regarding the abolition of death penalty.Governments of various countries have not only limited themselves to remove capital punishment from their own judicial systems but have also contributed towards launching a global movement for the eradication of death penalty. This opinion was first acknowledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Article 3 of UDHR says that everyone shall have the right to life.It was further elaborated in Article 5 that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This was the starting of international law …show more content…
A significant step towards the abolition of death penalty could be to limit imposition of death penalty to a few rare offences such as treason, political assassination etc.To ensure adequate punishment as a matter of policy the Goverrnment may consider granting remission of life sentence only after 60-70 years instead of 14 years imprisonment as at present. Hence, the Judiciary and the Legislature should jointly attempt towards the abolition of this cruel, inhuman and barbaric form of