A Study on Capital Punishment
A social and legal study, Justification
Of
Capital punishment
By
PRATEEK SAMADHIYA
ABSTRACT
According to oxford Dictionary, Capital punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.[1][1] Capital punishment is the death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes; rape and murder etc where in the criminal provisions consider such persons as a gross danger to the existence of the society and provide death punishment.[2][2] 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.
There is a great deal of debate over how powerful a deterrent capital punishment is. Most of us have an instinctive feeling that the death penalty must deter, at least to some extent. Deterrence is one of the fundamental reasons for punishment of any kind. Since death is considered the harshest punishment available under the law, it seems logical that it must also be the most effective deterrent to crime. The English barrister Sir James Stephen remarked, “No other punishment deters men so effectually from committing crimes as the punishment of death.” “In any secondary punishment, however terrible, there is hope; but death is death; its terror cannot be described more forcibly.”[3][3] The federal prisons now have custody of a man sentenced to life imprisonment, who, since he has been in prison, has committed three more murderers on three separate occasions- both of prison guard and inmates. There is no further punishment that he can receive. In effect, he has a license to murder.”[4][4]
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of
Of
Capital punishment
By
PRATEEK SAMADHIYA
ABSTRACT
According to oxford Dictionary, Capital punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.[1][1] Capital punishment is the death sentence awarded for capital offences like crimes involving planned murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes; rape and murder etc where in the criminal provisions consider such persons as a gross danger to the existence of the society and provide death punishment.[2][2] 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.
There is a great deal of debate over how powerful a deterrent capital punishment is. Most of us have an instinctive feeling that the death penalty must deter, at least to some extent. Deterrence is one of the fundamental reasons for punishment of any kind. Since death is considered the harshest punishment available under the law, it seems logical that it must also be the most effective deterrent to crime. The English barrister Sir James Stephen remarked, “No other punishment deters men so effectually from committing crimes as the punishment of death.” “In any secondary punishment, however terrible, there is hope; but death is death; its terror cannot be described more forcibly.”[3][3] The federal prisons now have custody of a man sentenced to life imprisonment, who, since he has been in prison, has committed three more murderers on three separate occasions- both of prison guard and inmates. There is no further punishment that he can receive. In effect, he has a license to murder.”[4][4]
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of
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