What Are The Pros And Cons Of Capital Punishment

Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence, while the actual process of killing the person is an execution. Capital punishment does not demonstrate the wrongfulness of killing by killing; it demonstrates the wrongfulness of killing by executing convicted murderers after a fair trial. Laws are a set of rules implemented by human to guide, enforce and discipline among the society which made by human, not by the God. Breaking laws and awarding punishments against the conduct is also equally done by the human. The death penalty violates the right to life which happens to be the

In this the author first describes about a selfless act done by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who commuted the death sentence of about 1200 convicts to life imprisonment. Then aurthor talks about a true story in which a was saved from the gallows is about a condemned man who literally survived three attempts to hang him. John Lee, a 19-year old servant was sentenced to be hanged at Exeter Gaol in Devon. Lee spent 22 years in jail and was released in 1907. He later immigrated to the united states and died of natural causes at the age of 67. The writer, Alejandro R. Roces says that death penalthy stops crime because the suspect is killed. In Britain where they abolished the death sentence the crime rate has increased, the murders that would have been punished by death sentence rose by 125

India’s Supreme Court has called him “the driving spirit” behind a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993. The day that Mr. Memon was to be executed was at 7 am in morning but their was a big concern was that Mr.memon was a muslim in this predominantly hindu nation deserve to die. The night before there were several people opposing his execution. This problem was fueled by last minute questions about Mr.Memon’s supposed cooperation with investigators. Muslim leaders and legal experts argued with increasing vehemence that India’s death penalthy is applied more agresively against muslims and other minority groups. In the artcle the author quotes a muslim member of the indian parliament where he says “Yes, Yakub as involved, but he did not deserve capital punishment.” One of the reired intteligence officail who had a key role in bringing Memon back to india said that, if it was a normal case Memon should face capital punishment but in his case, Mr. Memon had cooperated extensively with investigators. His willingness to provide details about the plot, and to persuade other members of his family to cooperate, was “a strong mitigating circumstance,” as mentioned by the inteliigence officail, Mr.