Rather than just opposing the fact that a Death Penalty is right or wrong, which I personally think that it's right, I'd like to point out a fundamental flaw in the law against murder itself.
Throughout nature we see that killing is common. Killing of one's own species is a little uncommon. But killing separate species for food is natural.
Its only us humans who have outlawed murder. I think this is fundamentally wrong. The reason this was done was because man was unsure of making a effective law that would deter one from murdering someone. Human legal systems were almost confident that they couldn't develop a legal system which would deter someone from murdering for his interest.
Killing someone for self defense, rape, heinous crimes (which could be well defined in the legal systems) should be allowed. Just as man has a fundamental right to live, which the blogger pointed out pretty deftly, a man should have a fundamental right to take life.
One would think, if this happens, humans would wipe themselves out overnight. This is a totally misplaced idea. The legal system, if it allows to kill, should also define very stringently under what 'circumstances' should killing be valid and justified. And then should very categorically implement a system in place which punishes the guilty with the same punishment, the capital punishment.
The fear of dying (out of legal punishment), which is a fundamental fear in human mind will simply keep things in check and human species will not wipe themselves off.
Capital punishment is right. There is nothing wrong with that. Lets take the debate even further by giving humans a fundamental right to kill and take life under well defined circumstances.
I agree that Capital punishment is justified but "right to kill and take like under well defined circumstances", looks a very dangerous proposition... Even if we are able to frame well defined rules and regulations, by the time a case is gone to the court the person has already lost his life... the justification will ome late...
ReplyDeleteIf the perpetrator knows that the punishment for murder is murder itself, such crimes won't be a dangerous proposition at all, coz' they will self check themselves.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't completely agree with that. As you said that capital punishment should be given based on the circumstances that the crime has happened. But the law has so much loop holes that the circumstances can easily be created or manipulated. Well, I personally don't support "Kill for a Kill" kind of an idea, but usually I think life imprisonment (till death) can certainly improve the situation we are talking about.
ReplyDeleteDeath penalty is a price to pay for the crime. Its not murder, its not revenge. Every act should have have an equal and opposite penalty. Execution is not equal incase 2 have been killed, its the best that mere mortals can do in fairness.
ReplyDeleteSandeep, you are talking about the law of today which is ridden with loopholes. To enact a proper capital punishment law, it will need to be strengthened, hardened.
ReplyDeleteImprisonment till death just eats your taxes away. If you want you tax money to go waste on some devil who shouldn't live in the first place, it's your call.