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   Ayushman Jamwal
   Wednesday, March 06, 2013 at 13 : 37

Death Penalty is no sign of an uncivilized society

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   Morality and prudence are polar opposite virtues, which when hold hands
   deliver political master strokes to those who wield them. For the
   heinous crimes of terrorism and rape that visit the Indian people every
   day, that political capital lies in carrying out the death penalty, as
   many cheer to see the rare sight of justice in its purest form. The
   very root of crime is human character, something that hasn't diminished
   in brutality even with the advent of 'civilised society'. While it is
   very important for society to drive the judicial machinery to prove
   guilt, it is as important to give fitting punishments to the guilty.
   Due diligence should never be seen as the criminal justice system being
   soft of perpetrators. Yet, when the Supreme Court and the President
   sign off on a penalty, the sentence of the guilty should be carried
   out; the right of appeal of the guilty should end then and there. Their
   crimes forgo their rights to be treated as citizens

   Whenever the judiciary mulls the death penalty in cases of terror and
   rape, activists suddenly come out of the woodwork to decry human
   rights, the under-developed mental faculties of the guilty or just
   plain savagery. Yet savagery is the brutal rape and murder of a 23 year
   old girl in New Delhi, savagery is the murder of innocents in the
   Mumbai attacks or the security officers who defended Parliament. It
   should be completely unacceptable that a person who commits such
   heinous crimes is kept alive by tax payer money completing a life
   sentence. In the case of regional parties who raise the 'sentiments' of
   communities, the Central government should grow a backbone and ignore
   their threats of pulling out support. Rajiv Gandhi was India's Prime
   Minister, the prime representative of the people. It's an insult to
   Indian democracy to entertain the demands of Tamil parties to commute
   the death sentence of his killers. It's an insult if the Centre
   entertains the calls of Sikh groups to commute the death sentence of
   Balwant Singh Rajaona, the killer of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
   The death penalty is a fitting punishment for these enemies of the
   state for destroying lives, causing wanton destruction, for attacking
   Indian democracy.

   The logic of the death penalty is clear and simple. People who commit
   such crimes should be removed from society when the judicial system
   deems it so to not only uphold the law, but to maintain a precedent
   that people who have no respect of human life don't deserve to be
   sheltered or sustained by human society. Many ask who has the right to
   play God. But we play God all the time when we live for others. We play
   God when we love and nurture others, when we strive to elevate others,
   when we fight to defend and uphold the integrity of our community. It's
   just called responsibility. Permanently removing dangerous criminals
   from society is not the sign of a God complex or savagery, it's the
   responsibility of the government when carrying out their duty to
   protect the integrity and faith of civilized society.
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