Saturday, October 28, 2006

Death Penalty and Society

Is the Death Penalty good for society ?

Harshal says: no..absolutely not...all those rapists and thieves do not deserve a death penalty...too quick and easy for them..no, they deserve a slow painful death..life sentence... but then..seeing as our police is mostly corrupt..and here there are greater risks of these criminals getting out faster than going in to prison..death penalty should be approved.

Savy says: death serves no purpose at all except anguish for the people left behind.

Busybee says: Yes, death penalty is too good for some type of criminals....for instance rapists. Rapists should be castrated. Murderers / killers of any kind should get death penalty, this is so because they themselves did not care for the life of others.....but this too easy a punishment. Gets over too fast.

DecentmonKey says: Absolutely yes.. besides punishing the convicted, it can also be a huge deterrant for would be criminals..

Frenchita says: yes it is good for society .. 1. too much money spent by govt. keeping the criminals alive 2. defence lawyers are paid with our taxes .at least in the US .. they tend to postpone the execution date by appeal after appeal date making $ 1to 2 per murder to make maximum money . 3. deterrent to future crimes 4.collective revenge factor of society is appeased 5.I knew of a female judge in Michigan who was considered ridiculously lenient . never giving death penalty or life sentence until her own daughter was raped and murdered . following that she advocated the death penalty on every murder case .
On the one hand , consider the agony of the victim's family on the other hand , consider the comfortable life of the convicted felon with nice meals , exercising tv room , nice bed and certain rights . Where is the sense of fairness and justice ?

Tejbir says: Can't say But tell me, will u hang a guy who murdered a man for stealing his wrist watch will u still hang him if he was stealing to feed his hungry child now.....if the two were different men? both committed murders both made a woman widow both made a kid orphan who should be hanged and who should not be. so, gravity of crime in social subjectivity has to be kept above the law book when deciding to hang or not

Anjali says: in some cases it must be like afzal case......dhananjoy case etc............as it ll be lesson for d criminals.....

Ashiya says: well i think if the crime is proven..... crimes like Priyadarshini Matoo, Dhananjay, the case of the christian missionary who was burnt alive with his kids......... yes i think the only punishment of these crimes is Death...... But please also need to emphasize on a timely judiacial closure to the case.

Rajesh (Kachra King) says: Very much nessesary in current Society .. esp with the population in India the violaters of law should be punished strictly. Else controling crime would become difficult.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

no..absolutely not...all those rapists and thieves do not deserve a death penalty...too quick and easy for them..no, they deserve a slow painful death..life sentence... but then..seeing as our police is mostly corrupt..and here there are greater risks of these criminals getting out faster than going in to prison..death penalty should be approved.

Anonymous said...

death serves no purpose at all except anguish for the people left behind.

Anonymous said...

Yes, death penalty is too good for some type of criminals....for instance rapists. Rapists should be castrated. Murderers / killers of any kind should get death penalty, this is so because they themselves did not care for the life of others.....but this too easy a punishment. Gets over too fast.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely yes.. besides punishing the convicted, it can also be a huge deterrant for would be criminals..

Anonymous said...

yes it is good for society ..
1. too much money spent by govt. keeping the criminals alive
2. defence lawyers are paid with our taxes .at least in the US .. they tend to postpone the execution date by appeal after appeal date making $ 1to 2 per murder to make maximum money .
3. deterrent to future crimes
4.collective revenge factor of society is appeased
5.I knew of a female judge in Michigan who was considered ridiculously lenient . never giving death penalty or life sentence until her own daughter was raped and murdered .
following that she advocated the death penalty on every murder case .
On the one hand , consider the agony of the victim's family on the other hand , consider the comfortable life of the convicted felon with nice meals , exercising tv room , nice bed and certain rights .
Where is the sense of fairness and justice ?

Anonymous said...

Can't say
But tell me, will u hang a guy who murdered
a man for stealing his wrist watch
will u still hang him if he was stealing to feed his hungry child
now.....if the two were different men?
both committed murders
both made a woman widow
both made a kid orphan
who should be hanged and who should not be.

so, gravity of crime in social subjectivity
has to be kept above the law book
when deciding to hang or not

and since this question has allusions to Afzal
i support his hanging provided
all those tainted ministers who make a mockery
of our parliament
and daily reduce it to a rubble of ridicule
should be hanged too

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Anonymous said...

hi shrawan,
in some cases it must be like afzal case......dhananjoy case etc............as it ll be lesson for d criminals.....
tc bye

Anonymous said...

Hi.....
well i think if the crime is proven..... crimes like Priyadarshini Matoo, Dhananjay, the case of the christian missionary who was burnt alive with his kids......... yes i think the only punishment of these crimes is Death......

But please also need to emphasize on a timely judiacial closure to the case.

Anonymous said...

Very much nessesary in current Society .. esp with the population in India the violaters of law should be punished strictly. Else controling crime would become difficult.